transfering

I don't know why people are so awful on this site. In fact, we can't even be sure that they're greek, and if they are, shame on them. I think you will find that you will make wonderful friends here. I wouldn't trade my experience at IU for anything.

IU Greek life can be very condescending and nasty. You don't see this on other university's GR - even competitive Mizzou.

There are lots of good houses here and it isn't that hard to get into one. I also think most houses take transfers, but check with the local chapter. Hope it works out for you.

Part of what really makes Mizzou's recruitment competitive is that girls get their hears set on certain houses and when they have the bottom three left, they drop out. That is why half the girls who go through don't get bids. Mizzou has way more girls who drop than IU does. However, since Mizzou uses RFM and quota/total girls who maximize their options at pref get placed as a quota addition. At IU, you can go to pref and not get a bid, which rarely happens at other schools.

Mizzou's Greek system is NOT more competitive! They use standard RFM system that every other school in the US uses which means if you keep an open mind and get to preference you will get a bid. The problem is a lot of PNM's don't keep an open mind and drop out before preference if they decide they are too good for the invites they have left.

IU is legit the most competitive recruitment in the country. We are the only school that uses they bed rush system which means that the number of openings in a house are based on a formula based on the number of beds that will be available to live in. At every other school in the country (including Mizzou!), quota is based on the number of PNMs left at preference.

The most competitive recruit in the nation? Sure. You just keep thinking that. There is a reason all other schools have gone to other systems, and it's because they are more fair. Even so, at Mizzou record numbers of girls have gone through recruitment the last 8 years and with only 15 chapters, more than half of the girls don't make it into a chapter for a variety of reasons. And it's not because they're in a snit, I assure you.

Let's do the math. Mizzou has more than 2,000 girls going through rush each fall and 15 sororities. Indiana has fewer girls going through rush and 23 sororities. How is is Mizzou not more competitive when half of those who go through rush don't get into a house?

Yes, let's do the math. IU sororities make their own individual predetermined quota that is based on nothing more than the number of beds that will be available next year, or minimum of the 50 Panhel requires now. So the total number of bids available is predetermined at the beginning, no matter how many PNMs end up registering or who go to at least one preference. The are ALWAYS significantly fewer bids available compared to PNMs. Every year there are many PNMs who have a full preference schedule who do not receive a bid. IU's placement rate is historically around 60% based on the number of PNMs who start out. There is no other school that does it this way which is what makes us the embarrassment of the NPC.

At other schools, quota is determined ON preference and is based only on how many PNMs are going to at least one preference party, and basically that number is divided by the number of sororities. If you go to at least one preference, and list all the parties you went to, you will get a bid. So if you keep an open mind and aren't a complete weird person everyone would drop immediately and you don't drop out because you decide you don't want what's left, your chances of getting a bid are essentially guaranteed. At Mizzou, over 1/3 of all PNMs drop out sometime during the process because they don't like their remaining choices. They had options. This is not competitive. This is PNMs thinking they are better than they are and having tantrums.

One other thing ... RFM, which is the system used by every other school but IU, is designed to place 85% - 95% of PNMs (this figure also mathematically takes into account those who drop out.) Even at schools like Ole Miss, Alabama, UGA and Texas, this figure holds true. RFM works and levels the playing field for PNMs and sororities. IU remains the most competitive recruitment in the nation because they are the only hold out.

You are misinformed. Here are the actual percentages regarding those who didn't get bids for MIzzou last year:

9.7% of the women who registered and did not end up with a bid were released by all chapters. Most of these were early releases for grades as Mizzou doesn't stop grade risks from registering for recruitment.

The other 90.3% of those who registered and did not end up with a bid chose to withdraw when they still had invitations, or failed to maximize their options after preference (only listed one or two of their three preference parties)

Pretty much proves the point: that it is extremely hard to get into the houses people want to get into. Cuts are rampant. It's not pretty.