University of Southern California Recruitment

[Pearly]

I think she means that they are on a razor thin margin because historically they have done so well. I heard they had a very large number of legacies (30 +) so I am not sure at all what happened. Anybody have confirmed numbers?

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by Football Fan

With over a thousand women registered and nine houses participating in formal recruitment new member classes may be the largest ever.

So which of the NPC groups did not participate in recruitment? I see on the website that there are 11 NPC chapters...
AXO, APhi, GPhiB, ADChi, DDD, PBPhi, ADPi, Theta, DG, KKG, & SDT

I realize that SDT participated in only the first part of rush.

[GPhiBLtColonel]

...but I believe ADChi doesn't do formal recruitment...

[Football Fan]

ADChi and SDT select members through informal recruitment.

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by Football Fan

ADChi and SDT select members through informal recruitment.

Got it, thanks!

[dukedg]

Originally Posted by Pearly

I think she means that they are on a razor thin margin because historically they have done so well. I heard they had a very large number of legacies (30 +) so I am not sure at all what happened. Anybody have confirmed numbers?

I believe they had around 40 legacies this year. I don't have any results for DG yet.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by kaeb

Ok this is all speculation on my part, but chapters are allowed to take up to quota, right? So isn't it conceivable that some chapters may have opted to take fewer women?

I don't know about other groups, but any chapter of ours that did this would be in deep you-know-what with the Fraternity if they did this!

[mamagreek]

I wouldn't think a sorority would have all of the legacies it started out with (30, 40 or whatever) to pref. I thought chapters invited legacies back once as a courtesy, but then after that sororities release legacies and legacies release legacy chapters.

[KSUViolet06]

^^^Everyone's legacy policy is different. They certainly do not HAVE to cut or keep any set number of legacies. Depending on the policy, quota, amount of legacies in recruitment and other factors, a chapter could very well have 30 legacies in a class if it so chooses.

[BlueOwl]

Delta Gamma is a verrrry desirable sorority at USC. I would be shocked if they elected to be under quota and I would be more shocked if panhellenic allowed it. Given that there were so many pnm's this year.

I know for a fact that DG is one of the most sought after (if not THE most sought after bids at USC). I am sure their cuts are huge and their return rates very high.

Glad that all of the sororities did well this year!!

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by BlueOwl

Delta Gamma is a verrrry desirable sorority at USC. I would be shocked if they elected to be under quota and I would be more shocked if panhellenic allowed it. Given that there were so many pnm's this year.

I know for a fact that DG is one of the most sought after (if not THE most sought after bids at USC). I am sure their cuts are huge and their return rates very high.

Glad that all of the sororities did well this year!!

Maybe they were allowed to take quota and not one person more. Sometimes a lower number means that the group is more desirable, not less.

Here's my understanding of what happens sometimes with the "most desirable" houses under RFM:

Because the "most desirable" chapters have a high return rate, they have to make deeper cuts much earlier than other groups. They have fewer people that they can invite to their invitationals and to pref. Because fewer people attend their pref, they don't get many of the "extra" PNMs who attended pref somewhere but failed to match on the first go round, but who are matched to one of their pref houses because RFM guarantees them a bid if they maximize their options. "Less desirable" houses can invite more women to pref and thus, they can pick up more of the "extra" PNMs.

Somebody correct this if it's wrong.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by KDCat

Maybe they were allowed to take quota and not one person more. Sometimes a lower number means that the group is more desirable, not less.

Here's my understanding of what happens sometimes with the "most desirable" houses under RFM:

Because the "most desirable" chapters have a high return rate, they have to make deeper cuts much earlier than other groups. They have fewer people that they can invite to their invitationals and to pref. Because fewer people attend their pref, they don't get many of the "extra" PNMs who attended pref somewhere but failed to match on the first go round, but who are matched to one of their pref houses because RFM guarantees them a bid if they maximize their options. "Less desirable" houses can invite more women to pref and thus, they can pick up more of the "extra" PNMs.

Somebody correct this if it's wrong.

You are correct. Even if there were women who were at DG's pref and didn't match, the GA could have placed them as quota additions in the weaker recruiting chapters instead.

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

You are correct. Even if there were women who were at DG's pref and didn't match, the GA could have placed them as quota additions in the weaker recruiting chapters instead.

This only works if the PNM picked the other chapter as her first choice and NOT if DG did not made quota and the girl would be a QA to the other chapter.

Also - to clarify - a chapter that gets quota additions is NOT less desirable nor is a PNM that is a QA less desirable. A PNM is made a QA if she does not match in the top of the bid list for her pref chapters. It is done so that every woman invited to prefs will get a bid.

A chapter that gets QAs did better than statisically expected based on the number of women they were allowed to invite. The QA usually goes to the smaller of the two chapters but that is the decision of the GA. If both chapters are the same size or two chapters are going to get a lot of QAs the GA might spread them out.

[Pearly]

DG is a highly desirable chapter at USC and they had very capable girls handling recruitment but they obviously lost more than a few girls to the other chapter that they pref'ed at...I am sure they will be all over that and are still a strong and well respected chapter...As are ALL of the USC Sororities!
And please aren't we supposed to be avoiding talk about tiers and who is number one and top of the heap? Very disrespectful to other groups and this type of talk is what causes girls to drop out of rush and miss out on a wonderful experience in Sorority life.

[kaeb]

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