<p>I’d love to hear how it went. Does everyone get a bid if you don’t suicide on Prefs Day?</p>
<p>Son got into the house he wanted.</p>
<p>@Rice1961 - I don’t know the answer to your question, but hopefully someone else will. D did suicide, but happily got the house she wanted.</p>
<p>@Pizzagirl - Congrats to your S! D also landed where she’d hoped to, though I think all she knew going into the process was what she’d heard through friends.</p>
<p>@Tessamess - Agreed! How these NU kids ever squeeze in homework around everything else they do is a mystery to me. Lucky they’re all so smart or they’d be in real trouble! ;-D</p>
<p>If you go to three houses (the max) for Pref, and you do not suicide, you will get a bid. However, this year there were something like 660 girls going through recruitment, and so that means a good chunk of them were likely released from the process before Pref or only went to one or two houses on Pref and did not end up with a bid.</p>
<p>D got into her #1 choice thankfully. She did have 3 houses at pref night. It was an interesting process. We had heard that the greek life was pretty laid back at Northwestern but it seemed quite competitive this year. Now with the info of so many girls rushing it makes sense.
I sure do feel for those girls who were not chosen…
Thankfully there are so many other opportunities to get involved at NU!</p>
<p>I don’t know much about sorority rush - does this mean that there weren’t enough spots for all the girls rushing? Or did a number of girls change their minds and drop out? Does NU need another sorority given the demand?</p>
<p>I think the rush for the boys is much more straightforward. I get the sense that a large percentage of the boys pretty much know where they are going to end up (and thus why so many accept bids the first night).</p>
<p>There are never enough spots for the number of girls rushing. Last year, “quota” for each house was 30, and since there are 12 sororities, that means there were only 360 spots. However, 605 girls rushed. This year, quota went up to 35, but that still means there were only 420 spots, and about 660 girls rushing. That being said, a lot of girls do drop out throughout the process.</p>
<p>I don’t know that NU would benefit from another sorority unless the number of girls going through recruitment increased drastically. 12 seems about right for the size of our campus.</p>
<p>Lots of girls drop out throughout, and some girls “suicide” (only put down one house despite being invited to more), even though they are warned not to. How many girls put down 3 houses and don’t get a bid?</p>
<p>Virtually none. The idea is that if you have three houses on pref night and you “maximize your options” – i.e., don’t “suicide” – you will get a bid.</p>
<p>When I was a rush counselor years ago at NU, that’s how it worked. Extremely, extremely rare for a girl who wanted to go Greek not to get in. Now, if she decided on day 1 she had to be a Kappa and blew off other houses, she might have been disappointed, but not if she gave everyone a fair shake.</p>
<p>I understand that it’s not a great idea to go for broke on one sorority, but it seems from the post above (#144) that some weren’t able to get to the final night/3 houses who might have wanted to continue. That’s why I asked if there was sufficient demand for another house given how many started the process this year. Anyways, not my issue and don’t mean to cause a kerfuffle. Just curious (very different than the fraternity process).</p>
<p>“There are never enough spots for the number of girls rushing.”</p>
<p>That isn’t true. Quota depends on the number of young women participating. It is not determined in advance of recruitment. The difference between the number of applicants and the number of new members consists almost entirely of students who refused certain chapters. Only a handful of students are dropped by all chapters, and this is because the chapters did not want them, not because there was no room for them in the system.</p>
<p>^This is correct. “Quota” is a minimum alotment, not a maximum. Think communism- X girls, each house gets (x-C)/12 girls, minimum, where C is some constant imported.</p>
<p>Bumping for new students (particularly crisps16). </p>
<p>For what it’s worth, D just became the first-ever member of our family to join a sorority and so far she’s really enjoying it. We just picked out her pledge pin!</p>
<p>@MomCares
Thanks for this - and congrats to your D!</p>
<p>A lot has changed since 2009, so the ranks are as follows:
(rankings can/usually change after fall rush based on the pledges)</p>
<p>for sororities:
Kappa TriDelt
Theta
PiPhi Aphi
GPhi KD ZTA
DG
DZ
AChiO
ChiO</p>
<p>for frats:
SAE
Pike ZBT
Sigma Chi
Phi Psi
Beta
PhiDelt
DTD Delta Chi
Lambda Chi
AEPi
SigNu
Fiji
DU
Sig Ep
Theta Chi</p>
<p>but in the end, rank doesnt matter; find a house where you feel most comfortable and hwere oyu think you’ll find the most lasting relationships</p>
<p>Please, stop with the ranking. It’s pathetic.</p>
<p>Yeah, rankings are pointless. Some people would rather have great friends then great parties, which is what your list seems to reflect. You don’t even have PMA on your list, despite the fact that it is, in fact, a fraternity which even has a house on campus, in the sorority quads (which sounds like a better spot to me, than amongst all the other houses of guys). No one pay attention to rankings unless you’re buying into picking a frat based on social standing, and those are the kind of people that give frats bad names.</p>
<p>And I say this as someone whose house is in your top 3 and whose husband and son are in your top 3, so it’s not “jealousy” :-)</p>