Women's rush concluded for the Panhellenic Council last night with bid acceptance night. From here, individual houses take over with their new members.
In contrast to the 11 percent of rushing women last year who were turned away from houses, only two percent did not receive bids this year.
Although Panhell claimed in September that they were hoping to offer every rushee a bid, it emerged last night that the numbers of girls rushing were simply too high.
Panhell President Alex Kremer '01 told The Dartmouth last night that all the houses except for one had gone over the pre-established number in the effort to give out as many bids as possible.
She wrote in a BlitzMail message last night that "a lot of houses have larger pledge classes than they've had for a very long time."
According to Kremer, the rush chairs determine the number of new members they can take in cooperation with Panhell based on the number of women returning to the preference night parties.
Those women who did not receive bids during rush this fall are invited to participate in rush during the Winter term, Kremer said. The winter also tends to draw those sophomore women who wanted to participate in rush, but were off campus during the Fall term.
Panhell also noted a fewer percentage of women dropping out during the long two-week rush process. Kremer quoted the retention rate this term at 96 percent, approximately a 10 percent increase over the fall 1999 rush retention.
