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Some houses cut juniors, it's tougher in the top houses like pi phi and kappa I think

Pi Phi and Kappa take juniors every fall, but not more than 2 or 3.

Wait why would a transfer have a higher chance? In my house we end up taking girls who have been here because they tend to have friends in houses. But transfer or not I believe isn't a huge diff.

Probably differs between houses, but my house tends to think that transfers deserve a clean slate shot, where juniors who've been here but are waiting till now to rush might not be as likely to be highly contributing members. It doesn't matter much, but that's the attitude that I've heard expressed.

What kind of logic is that? You can't tell potential contribution from whether or not someone is a transfer. There could be a number of reasons why someone would wait until junior year to rush. A transfer could just as easily not contribute because she is not familiar with the school and doesn't want to get in too deep so fast. Especially with the politics of sorority life.

& don't pull out the "initiative" card.... how a transfer wanting to rush immediately means she takes social initiative so she will be more heavily involved, while a current student waiting to rush means she doesn't have social initiative. For all we know, the current student could have already had a vibrant social life while at Berkeley, possibly outside of Greek life. Reasons someone would wait until junior year could be financial (save enough money to join Greek life...which is HUGE initiative) or academic (the major they want to declare could be competitive like Haas, or has strict grade requirements like math and CS)