Cap most bickered and most selective club for second year in a row
Ruby ShaoCap & Gown Club was the most selective and most bickered eating club for the second year in a row after accepting 46 percent of bickerees.Cap accepted 98 of its 213 bickerees this year, including 96 sophomores and two juniors. Around 563 students were accepted into one of the six bicker clubs this year, which is significantly higher than the 515 who were offered membership last year. In total, the bicker clubs received about 884 applications, including cross-bickerees, up from 831 applications last year. Cap president Justin Perez '14 attributed the increase in his club's bickerees to the multi-club Bicker system that was introduced by the Interclub Council last spring.With the new system, students can bicker up to two selective eating clubs and gain membership to the highest ranked club that accepts them. "People probably had the option to bicker two clubs and maybe try Cap out if they wanted to see if they thought it was a place they'd want to be," Perez said."We also had a bunch of sophomore pre-Bicker events that have seen quite a lot of people out as well." Cap has seen a steady increase in the number of bickerees for the past three years, up from 199 in the spring of 2013 and 157 in the spring of 2012. Tower, on the other hand, was the least selective club with a 76.8 percent acceptance rate.
