After weeks of open houses, section parties and interviews, Duke's 10 selective living groups accepted approximately 170 hopeful rushees this month, selective living group officials said.
Though selective houses had to make changes to housing arrangements due to scheduled renovations in Few Quadrangle-currently home to five fraternities and selective living groups-officials said most houses accepted similar numbers of new students as previous years.
Accepted bid numbers generally varied relative to house size, from nine new members apiece in SHARE and Arts Theme House to 30 in Mirecourt.
With 27 new members this year, Wayne Manor was pleased with the size of their incoming class, said President Ellis Wisely, a junior.
"Last year was 28-we didn't expect this," he said. "We expected smaller because they're doing Few renovations so we had some of our rooms converted to triples, and more than we initially expected [were converted]."
Former Mirecourt president John Perkins, a senior, said the selective house accepted more students than expected given similar housing changes such as conversions from doubles to triples and study rooms to bedrooms.
Members of SHARE, a selective living group focused on academic and residential experimentation, said size is not their main concern.
"SHARE doesn't work like most of the selective living groups," said President Andrew Kindman, a sophomore and Chronicle columnist. "We're more self-selective and we work around people who want to live with us."
Aside from membership growth, selective houses said they are enthusiastic about their incoming classes.
"We're glad to have a new class," said Arjun Madan-Mohan, a senior and Maxwell House president. "[Rush] has been pretty successful most years, and definitely, a lot of great people turned out this year."
Language Dorm President Aaron Lee, a junior, said he was very pleased with rush results this year.
"We definitely hand out bids to those who have a lot of enthusiasm for the dorm and those who love langauges," he said. "The language skills and abilities of the rushees this year was really strong, so rush went really smoothly and was a lot of fun."
Members of Selective House Council declined to comment.
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