I did see that rather than letting the PNMs watch the videos from their dorm, they all had to go to a campus building and do it in several rooms based on their rho chi group.

TCU has the PNMs set aside a full day at home shortly before move in day to watch all the videos. Pretty sure UGA did the same thing.

For the PNMs that are complaining that "chapters are cutting me without even meeting me" well, um, PNMs are doing the exact same thing! They are ranking the chapters before meeting them. So both sides are fair.

Both sides are working with data points (GPA, philanthropy, colors, symbols, high school activities) as well as measurables, opinions, and "feels." This is actually a great way to shorten the week by 2-3 days at these larger recruitments. The girls on both sides are less tired, it is 2-3 less outfits to buy, and by and large seems to be working well.

Yeah I do like the new open house format, especially with the south being so hot and letting the PNMs sit in comfortable AC and watch the videos.

There was discussion on TikTok that Bama might be doing variable quota this year because the early cuts have been huge - anyone know?

Yeah I just came back from Greek chic’s video. 2000 cuts EACH from 6-7 houses, that is crazy! :eek: If that’s because they’re doing variable this year that could explain it.

It seems more feasible that variable quota would be used to allow any chapters with significantly smaller membership to have a higher quota, in the hopes that they would be able to “catch up” sooner.

On a more fun note the door chants for each house are being posted to the panhellinc Instagram page!

I went through what was then called rush 40+ years ago. My daughters went through recruitment 19 and then 16 years ago. I watched the daughter of a friend go through last fall. I am just floored by the changes that have taken place over the years. Kudos to all the young ladies who year-after-year work hard to fill the ranks!

Sounds about right, the highest recruiting strength chapters at a given school will release about 2/3 of the PNM pool after round 1, and I don’t think that’s even influenced by variable quota. It’s what makes RFM work.