Informal rush at Indiana U

[true_blue]

Welcome to ADPi!!!!

[ree-Xi]

Cogratulations! Would you care to share your story? Even if it's brief, I like to hear COB stories (I came through via COB).

[IUHoosiergirl88]

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

Cogratulations! Would you care to share your story? Even if it's brief, I like to hear COB stories (I came through via COB).

I totally would, but at this point, I'd still like to keep my identity under wraps..and with like 10 girls going through informal at ADPi...it wouldn't be hard to figure out who I was, haha. I'll tell it after initiation :]

[honeychile]

Congratulations to one of our latest Alphas! Be sure to "introduce" yourself in the ADPi Forum - we Y our Alphas!!

And of course, we won't "out" you!

[APhiAnna]

Hey, bare with me because I am super curious about recruitment here...do you guys move into the house immediately after recruitment? Or wait until sophomore year?

If you wait until sophomore year, does that mean that pretty much all the houses do informal to some degree (if a member drops out during pledge period, or even post-initiation)?

[IUHoosiergirl88]

No, we don't move in the house immediately after or anything...a sophomore brought in through COB would move in during the fall of their junior year...freshman would move in during the fall of their sophomore year like any other freshman new member. We do deferred recruitment here, we don't get bids until the beginning January...which sucks. Haha.

Not all the houses do informal, it really depends on what their individual quota is, what they want to take in for a PC, how many girls they got bid matched, and if they have girls drop. Some of the top houses here do snap bid a few girls in if they wanted them and found out they didn't get them, or those girls have a bunch of friends in the house. Typically ADPi does informal almost year round, unfortunately (or fortunately for me :] ) but they took a bigger PC this spring than normal...~25 girls, whereas some houses took 40-50+ girls. Sometimes a few other houses will do it, but like I said, it depends on a lot of things. IU can be a little complicated, haha

[CougarGrad]

Congratulations to you and the sisters of Alpha Delta Pi!

[Sister Havana]

Congratulations to you and ADPi!

(I'm an IU alum!)

[pinkmama]

Welcome to ADPi!!

[kirkwood]

how many houses did informal last year? do you know?

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by kirkwood

how many houses did informal last year? do you know?

What happened last year will likely have no bearing whatsoever on what happens this year.

[IndianaSigKap]

Kirkwood...if you haven't contacted Panhel, you need to do so on Monday. There is a chance that informal could already be over or a chance it hasn't started. IU Panhel isn't the most communicative at times. Get your name to them so they can get it to chapters who might have openings. For some reason, chapters keep it so hush hush if they didn't make quota (especially the higher profile chapters) that it makes it hard to know what exactly is going on. Good luck.

There is also a rumor that they will be adding one or two chapters in the near future. There is data to support expansion.

[DubaiSis]

Oh IndianaSigKap, you can't go around saying "there's a rumor" without feeding us more than that! What have you heard? We all know there's data to support expansion. And we also know there's no housing. Has there been an actual change of status somewhere, somehow? Is your rumor new?

[IndianaSigKap]

As my user name suggests, I still live in Indiana and have a few ties to the university still. The housing situation is not actually as it's being portrayed by the university. For example, they want the land where the FIJI house is currently to expand the law school. They know FIJI won't make a deal unless they are guaranteed land somewhere else on campus. There are two lots for sure and possibly a third. One is next to AXO, one is next to DTD on the extension and there is room past the cul-de-sac that ADPi is on. There is an empty fraternity house on the extension right now and there are three fraternity houses leased to other organizations right now that when these leases are up, they could be leased to a new sorority. Ashton residence hall is being totally torn down and rebuilt, a chapter could be housed there temporarily until a lease can be negotiated. There are two non Greek organizations also living on Jordan. So, there are housing options for a group who can plan strategically. A friend of mine works in Greek affairs at another university but works with her chapter at IU during recruitment and she overheard that the university has contacted a couple of sororities about the possibility of presenting in the spring. She did say that the figures from the last two years do support the need for expansion. I can't say much else because I don't want to reveal her identity.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap

As my user name suggests, I still live in Indiana and have a few ties to the university still. The housing situation is not actually as it's being portrayed by the university. For example, they want the land where the FIJI house is currently to expand the law school. They know FIJI won't make a deal unless they are guaranteed land somewhere else on campus. There are two lots for sure and possibly a third. One is next to AXO, one is next to DTD on the extension and there is room past the cul-de-sac that ADPi is on. There is an empty fraternity house on the extension right now and there are three fraternity houses leased to other organizations right now that when these leases are up, they could be leased to a new sorority. Ashton residence hall is being totally torn down and rebuilt, a chapter could be housed there temporarily until a lease can be negotiated. There are two non Greek organizations also living on Jordan. So, there are housing options for a group who can plan strategically. A friend of mine works in Greek affairs at another university but works with her chapter at IU during recruitment and she overheard that the university has contacted a couple of sororities about the possibility of presenting in the spring. She did say that the figures from the last two years do support the need for expansion. I can't say much else because I don't want to reveal her identity.

This all sounds potentially super duper, but there are a lot of "maybes" and "ifs" and conditionals in there.