blame panhellenic

67 new adpis!!!

Good for AZD.

Proud of all Greeks for recruitment. It is hard but especially excited for the new babies at AXiD because they are such a great group of pledges !

Congratulations To Delta Gamma at Texas!! It was a fantastic recruitment and we are excited to welcome 64 New Members (Quota 61) including 25 legacies (44%)!

AEPhi has 67.

So We've Heard from KD ADPi AXiD DG AEPhi and SDT sorta....

Everyone Else?!

Check out their Instagram.
You can count them.

Here's the thing and I'll probably get ripped apart by some of you snarky ones. But some of their pictures are cute.

I've heard on some campuses where all the other sororities actually help the new and/or struggling chapter. Wish Panhellenic spirit would kick in here. Then maybe more girls would get placed overall. And if SDT improved that would help everyone. I read on greekrank and on greekchat about all these other campuses where every group makes quota. All of them. Are we really so elitist and catty at UT that we can't help everyone succeed??

They do have some cute girls. Not saying this to mean but for comparison's sake -- they're better than Bama SDT. They're larger too by almost 20 members.

Assuming it's accurate that their national made them do formal, I think it might be because they see potential for the chapter to improve over time. Their national also came down a couple of years ago and helped them do an expansion recruitment after formal to boost their numbers.

On the other hand, the Bama chapter has done formal once (I think) in about 10 years. In their case I suspect SDT national realizes that this chapter can't realistically compete.

in a different world, most of those girls could also just as easily gotten bids to other houses, they deserve a chance to find a sisterhood without catty comments about their letters. I admire SDT for being more truly Panhellenic than a lot of the so-called big houses at Texas

Seriously? Did only nine NM's show up for bid day? How many were supposed to? I hope those nine members will stick it out and were worth turning the entire Greek system against you! Once again SDT ruins recruitment.

you don't seem to realize that the fault (if any) lies with UT Panhel and not the individuals in UT's chapter of SDT.

Or maybe they're happy and don't constantly need to self promote on Greek Rank.

Wow u ran thru this thread and down voted over and over any comment with support for SDT. And then posted a snarky comment. Glad you woke up from your bender.

Zeta got 62.

Hi mom- I can sympathize with a lot of why you're saying. For the many girls whose rush did not turn out the way they dreamed, it's a very tough emotional defeat before college even starts.

That said, I do not agree wirh your idea to set quota at the beginning of the week and let it ride, regardless of the number of pnm's who drop. UT uses RFM which is a really well thought out computer system whose formulas ensure that the maximum number of houses make quota and the maximum number of pnm's are placed. RFM uses each house's return rate (number of pnm's who want to go back) to determine the number of pnm's to invite to the next round. This allows strong recruiting chapters to cut more women so that those women can spend more time with the houses where they have a chance at a bid.

UT's campus engages in the most humane form of bid matching- if a PNM maximizes her options, she is GUARANTEED a bid to one of her pref houses. I haven't seen stats from this year but typically 75% of pnm's get their 1st choice. Setting quota after pref allows for all houses to have a high chance of making quota and a bid for all pnm's who maximize. This also allows all chapters to remain relatively the same size. You have seen or heard of campuses where the bottom houses are getting 20 pledges when quota is 80. Several years of missing quota that badly and chapters fold. We have wonderful chapters with 100+ year old histories who wouldn't survive under your quota plan.

UUhh -- she didn't say that....

Out of state PNMs going through UT recruitments are at a total disadvantage given the generations of legacies. Every email response I sent to a PNM when they asked for a reference had the statement: good luck with recruitment, go in with an open mind to all the houses and find the house that is the best fit for your personality and comfort. Joining any sorority is a wonderful thing with lifelong friendships. Top 6 or not, that's the truth. Truth doesn't lie.

spring is too late for rush at a big school like UT - but deferred a month or so would be healthy. Ol miss has rush around october and it works better i think.

Reread the last full paragraph because she kinds actually did insinuate that very thing. I thought it was oddly worded too, at say the very least.

^ you're wrong. Flat out. If YOU dropped out that's a different story. BUT, if you make it to pref night, and sign a bid card, and list all the pref houses you went to on your bid card, you WILL get a bid to one of those houses. That's how RFM works.

She is right. Flat out. Your answer assumes a girl makes it to pref. If she had one left skit night and they dropped her the day of pref, she would have maximized her chances, but she would still have ended up without a bid.