[jefflee108]

Stanford is on the quarter system. Generally undergraduates undergo the housing application process (for the following year) in the middle of spring quarter and the deferred recruitment at the beginning of spring is partly intended to allow as many prospective members as possible try the Greek recruitment process. If they do not pledge a housed organization, they still have several weeks to assemble a group of friends to enter the main lottery for housing. Probably the biggest tangible impact of this system is that freshman year friendships are generally extremely strong, and there is consequently a lot more inter-house collegiality since many freshmen will have lived in dorms with members of every IFC/ISC fraternity and sorority on campus.

Recruitment for both the men and women this year was apparently quite intense, with high interest across the board. My understanding is 260 prospective members began ISC (Panhell) recruitment, with some 50+ being sophomores--over twice as many as previous years. It should be noted that several Stanford sororities have unofficial "internal" quotas on sophomore pledges.

Don't have exact numbers, but the three housed sororities Delta Delta Delta, Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Alpha Theta all filled to "quota" usually set around 25+ members. There were several snap bids and both Theta and Kappa received transfer members from the East Coast. Two of Stanford's sororities are unhoused: Kappa Kappa Gamma filled its quota of 25+ or so girls. Apparently Chi Omega received 1 pledge from the formal recruitment process, but they are the only sorority that engages in COB around the year and will hopefully pick up more members. The Berkeley chapter of Chi Omega was here to assist them during formal recruitment. There were rumors that Alpha Epsilon Phi would colonize but it does not seem to be happening, nor is it likely that Delta Gamma will return anytime soon.

All seven of the housed fraternities, including my own, did very well and filled our own housing "quotas" (imposed by the University on all the chapters living on the University-owned Row).