IU is among the Top Schools Jewish Students Choose - very welcoming

http://www.hillel.org/about/news-views/news-views---blog/news-and-views/2013/08/21/2013-top-schools-jews-choose

Anonymous wrote: Thanks 20:42. I joined a Black Greek Letter Organization (BGLO) when I was in college. These sororities/frats do not have a house/residence. Housing and dining privileges are not a part of the experience. Prospective members may need votes from 3/4 of the chapter members to gain admittance. Interested students know all prospective members will not be accepted.

Sorry to hear about the process for IU's non-BGLOs.

NPHC member intake is really different than NPC recruitment, in general. And NPC recruitment is a mess at Indiana. They are special, special snowflakes and they really need to change their system.

Thanks 20:42. I joined a Black Greek Letter Organization (BGLO) when I was in college. These sororities/frats do not have a house/residence. Housing and dining privileges are not a part of the experience. Prospective members may need votes from 3/4 of the chapter members to gain admittance. Interested students know all prospective members will not be accepted.

Sorry to hear about the process for IU's non-BGLOs.

Go to a school where no one cares about Greek life. Greek life is two steps back on the way to becoming an adult.

Anonymous wrote:What is "bed rush?" How are quotas used by sororities?

At 99% of the campuses in the US, every PNM who completes the recruitment process is guaranteed a bid. If she isn't dropped by all the sororities and doesn't voluntarily quit, she will be placed in a sorority as a new member. This results in placement of 80-90% of the potential new members in a sorority. Every sorority is allowed to take a set number of new members. That set number is "quota." Quota is set by taking the number of potential new members who complete recruitment and dividing it by the number of sororities.

Indiana doesn't use quota. Each sorority sets it own number. They can take 3 new members or 100 new members. It's up to them. They usually set the number on the basis of how many beds they anticipate will be open in the next year. (Ie. we have 10 seniors graduating, so we will take 10 freshman as new members.) These numbers are way below the number of interested women who would like to be in a sorority. They place maybe 50% of the women who would like to join. It's a bloodbath.

Anonymous wrote:DD is considering Indiana as her "safety" school. Generally she (thinks she) likes the big college big sports atmosphere. I was wondering if others had some relatively recent experience with the school, the town, the people, anything else etc. Thanks.

My brother graduated from IU' pre-med program. Very sophisticated program, professors who are truly interested in teaching you the right skills for med school. Thanks to all the research experience he received there he was accepted to his first choice medical school.

If your DC is a serious student and is not interested in partying, she will succeed there. If not, send her somewhere local like GMU.

My 5 nieces attend IU and they all say the sororities are very segregated - by both religion and race. What's worse one of my nieces said "they don't want to join our sorority because they have their own". It was segregated when I attended IU but I would have thought that it changed.

Being in a sorority would be embarrassing to my Title IX DD.

What is "bed rush?" How are quotas used by sororities?

Anonymous wrote:DD is considering Indiana as her "safety" school. Generally she (thinks she) likes the big college big sports atmosphere. I was wondering if others had some relatively recent experience with the school, the town, the people, anything else etc. Thanks.

Does she have her heart set on being in a sorority? Because if she does, then IU is a bad place to do that. IU uses a "bed rush" system, rather than a quota system, and hundreds of qualified potential new members go bidless every year. It's by far the toughest, bloodiest recruitment in the country. If being Greek is a bonus, that she take or leave, then by all means go to IU. If being Greek is important to her, then she should go anywhere but IU.

Kids from here who go to IU...do they end up coming back here to work, or do they tend to settle in the Midwest since that is where most of the recruiters are from?

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Illinois, and I consider IU and Bloomington to be absolutely the most beautiful of the Big 10 campuses. There is a loveliness, and folksiness, a verdant splendor, and warmth to that particular region of the Heartland.

Michigan State is by far the most beautiful Big 10 school. Can we at least agree on the ugliest? OSU, right?

MSU is beautiful and totally underrated because it is in the same state as U of M. The gap is not as much as people think.