The main draw for recolonized houses

Are they hard to get bids at?

Depends, they still won’t take squids, but since they’re in rebuild phase, the alumni are ok with taking more bodies than normal. So for at least the spring, easier to get a bid. Once they fill up the houses though, will get much harder to join.

For a couple, the hardest work has been done — they’re back living in their houses, have had multiple rushes and now have 30 or more brothers, and things are going smoothly. For a couple it’s been more of a struggle, they should be fine but it’ll be more work if you join.

Bump for the rushes.

For the frosh. There's three diamonds in the rough in this group of five.

It’s an interesting year in cornell greek life with these frats back on their feet. I’d say four out of five are guaranteed to succeed, and the fifth one has a pretty good chance too.

Hopefully more frats and srats come back soon: SigEp, ATO, AOPi. We need the pie to get bigger not smaller. There used to be more than 50 frats on this campus. 25 years ago there were more than 40.

Bump.

Interesting

This is from the other thread that's going around about these houses. It fits well in this thread:

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Fiji and Llenroc and are doing solid re-cols with steady growth and a focus on brotherhood. Both have decent and consistent recruitment. Fiji > Lenroc socially. Both houses re-col strategies aren't exciting, but are effective. Strong alumni, and both own their own houses (meaning there's $$$). Llenroc's house is some kind of state or federal landmark.

SAE has a different approach: more splashy, with a more external focus on social and promotion/flexing. Building brotherhood is further down on their priority list. Lots of tough historical baggage, both at Cornell and nationally. Once owned their own very nice house, but had financial difficulties and sold it to Cornell a long time ago. Have involved alumni who want to see them succeed.

SNU started off strong. Recent rumors of a divided brotherhood. Inconsistent recruiting. Nice guys with a nice house, and I think they still own it. Don't have a sense of how engaged their alums are (might be a lot, just don't know).

Sammy's having the toughest time. Recruiting has been slow, etc. Don't own their own house, and the one they're in right now isn't great. Don't know how engaged their alums are. Challenges create opportunities though, so you never know.

Everyone should want all five of these re-cols to succeed. Failures just help the administrators and geeds who want to see the Greek system abolished.

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This group of five frats is like a microcosm of the larger Greek system. They're all pretty different:

- SNU skews athletic
- Lenroc skews kind of wealthy/traditional, with a gorgeous house
- Fiji historically is a much bigger brotherhood than the others (like 100 kids, often the largest frat on campus)
- SAE wants to be known as rowdy/super-social
- Sammy is kind of an underdog

Bumpp