Indiana Recruitment

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Just curious: Your MS process and criteria are such that you can tell PNMs all that stuff (ex: you get bonus points?) And you know for sure that every chapter auto invites all legacies back to 14 Party? This is not me being snarky. I'm just asking because I tend to not speak on the official policies on other orgs outside my own.

In years past, the number of legacies individual chapters had probably factored in the decision of whether to give them the automatic invitation to 14. Chapters will smaller number of legacies usually tried to invite them back, chapters who had 100+ legacies usually did not invite them all back. The year I went through, all of the girls in my rush group got invited back to their legacy chapters for 14 party, except one. But, we all knew in advance that this chapter had over 100 legacies coming through. The open house round lasts 30 minutes per chapter, I know that near the end of each day I tended to get tired. I am sure I was not the only one. I think chapters are more likely to take a chance and invite a legacy back since there are two more rounds after 14 and so many women going through. However, this is my speculation based on past experience and information picked up since from PNMs/current chapter members I know personally.

[Herbie]

Originally Posted by TSteven

Yes. However, my understanding is each chapter may (if they want) also bid over the number of beds. The formula is based on the number of PNMs at preference, less the number of “beds” divided by the number of chapters.

So as an example, say 100 PNMs make it to preference and there were three chapters (just to make the math easy).

ABC has 20 bed spots
DEF has 17 bed spots
XYZ has 33 bed spots

70 total bed spots between all three chapters.

Using the formula above, this is how is should play out.

100 PNMs less 70 bed spots = 30 total PNM additions. 30 total PNM additions divided by 3 chapters = 10 additions per chapter.

Thus ABC could pledge 30 (20 bed spots plus 10 additions)
DEF could pledge 27 (17 bed spots plus 10 additions)
XYZ could pledge 43 (33 bed spots plus 10 additions)

ETA: I am not sure how this works, but Lincoln (where the University of Nebraska is located) women are (were) considered “free” PNMs. Meaning they didn’t count toward the bed total. I don’t know if Lincoln women were part of the additions or a separate number.

By the way, UNL changed the way recruitment is conducted this year. So I don’t know if these quotas, additions and “free” Lincoln women still apply.

I am a long time lurker and felt like I should come out of the woodwork to clear things up about recruitment at Nebraska. I had heard that recruitment changed a bit at UNL this year so I am not sure if this is still how quota works or not. From what I hear though, the changes were mostly to the structure of recruitment (i.e. no more skits, visiting all houses first round instead of presentations at the Union, no food at parties).

The earlier theories on quota at Nebraska are way more complicated than reality. There is no bed quota. Very rarely do freshmen move into the house. Most women move in the Fall of their sophomore year. This is how quote was determined at least 5 years ago. After pref, Greek Affairs take a look at all of the women who attended and come up with a new campus total. I have no idea how this was done but in theory it would allow for all women who attended pref to get a bid. Each chapter's quota would then be the number of new members that chapter needs to meet total. It's as simple as that. If a chapter had a large senior class graduate the previous spring then most likely, that chapter would take a large pledge class. If a chapter had a small senior class the previous spring and had good retention, they would only need a small pledge class to reach total. Quota additions are available and taken pretty regularly. The houses on campus are all very similar in the total number of members as quota is determined based upon the new total determined in the Fall. Greek Affairs is great about working their hardest to place every woman who goes through recruitment.

Here is a link to the semester reports for all UNL greek chapters. If you look at them, you can see chapter totals and pledges each semester.
http://www.unl.edu/greek/semester_report.shtml

Also, women from Lincoln are not "free". They count towards quota just like everyone else. I have heard stories from alums that a long time ago, women from Lincoln were not allowed to live in the house.

[IndianaSigKap]

January 5-6, 2012 - First Invite (14 party)
January 7, 2012 - Second Invite (8 party)
January 8, 2012 - Preference Round (3 party)
January 9, 2012 - Bid Night

It's getting closer. I was hoping for a recruitment story or two, but it looks like we're out of luck this year.

[Tulip86]

^^
or the PNMs finally took a hint and won't post their story until after recruitment.

[WhiteRose1912]

I'm so excited for this! I want Theta Phi to proved that an unhoused sorority can still be awesome.

[AXEling]

Good luck to all the IU chapters! I'm always excited to hear how things go for other Indiana schools.

[IndianaSigKap]

Originally Posted by Tulip86

^^
or the PNMs finally took a hint and won't post their story until after recruitment.

True! I know a couple of young women going through, so I will get a small fix. They gave me the run down of their impressions from 20 party. Hopefully they will have successful week, they are going in prepared.

[pinkmama]

Bid night was tonight!!

[IUHoosiergirl88]

ADPi took 85 lovely new baby Alphas!

[glittergal1985]

Originally Posted by pinkmama

Bid night was tonight!!

Yes!!Just heard Theta Phi Alpha got 56 new members!!

[ElieM]

they sound like great results so far

[indianagreek]

This year was IU's toughest recruitment so far. About 1800 girls entered recruitment. With pledge classes so large last year, most houses had PCs of about 30 or so... combine that with 20 houses, that's less than 50% bid placement.

[IndianaSigKap]

Does that 50% include the women who did not make grades or choose to come back from break? If it does include those numbers it could be misleading. I am really happy for all of the women who stuck it out and received a bid!

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by indianagreek

This year was IU's toughest recruitment so far. About 1800 girls entered recruitment. With pledge classes so large last year, most houses had PCs of about 30 or so... combine that with 20 houses, that's less than 50% bid placement.

The official number from the Greek Life office was 1676 women entered recruitment.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by ForeverRoses

The official number from the Greek Life office was 1676 women entered recruitment.

And not to mention her placement numbers are a bit of since we know ADPi took 85, TPA took 56, we took in the 50s so that also changes the percentage right there. I'd like to see what the other groups actually took since 30 or so seems to be a wide range so far.