I understand what you're saying, but I think that irishpipes made a valid point. Unless you are completely unaware of the concept of rush you know that it is a "mutual selection process" which would include the possibility of not being invited back to a house. I don't think she was saying "just get over it". She was saying that if you can't handle the possibility of being cut from a house or multiple houses you should NOT go through formal recruitment.

I don't think it really pays to sugar coat the situation anyway. In life there are no guarantees for anything. You could interview for 20 jobs and not get any of them...it would suck, but it happens. You could also go out on 20 dates and have each of the guys/girls tell you that they're not interested...again, it would suck but it could happen. Recruitment is not a perfect system, we all know that...but it's the best idea we've come up with so far! Just my 2 cents

It really doesn't affect the first round of invites, only later rounds. Let me see if I can explain why...

Let's say we can rank all PNM's on a campus from 1 - 10, with an equal number of girls in each group. Let's also say that we can clearly rank the ten chapters on her campus from 1 - 10.

(note that these are terrible assumptions, because different chapters offer different things, and look for different things in PNM's, but I do math for a living so I like to put everything into numbers)

Suzie PNM is a 6, so 50% of PNM's are more desireable, 10% are the same, and 40% are less desireable. After round 1, Suzie gets invited to all ten houses, because even the biggest chapters are allowed to invite 70% of the PNM's back. She picks chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, dropping 6 through 10. So does every other girl in the top 70%.

Now, in the view of houses 1 through 5, Suzie is more desireable than only 14% of the PNM's left in their pool, equal to 14%, and less desireable than 72%. If they are again allowed to invite back 70% of the PNM's, OOPS, Suzie has no invites.

Let's replay this with top chapters only being able to invite back 50% of girls, and smaller chapters being able to invite back 100%. Suzie gets invites to 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, and goes back to each of them. The same goes for all the girls in the lower 50% of the PNM pool.

Now, in the view of houses 6 through 10, Suzie is in the top 20% of PNM's. She will get five invites back to the next round.

The girls in the top 50% are unaffected by this change, as are the girls in the bottom 30%, but the 20% that would have been invited to chapters 1-5 in the first scenario but not the second are much more likely to find a home.

Maskes sense, OtterXO.

Hurts my brain, DeltaBetaBaby.

MTSUGURL - I understand and it still maked my head hurt!

It boils down to the chapters with high recruiting strength being able to invite fewer women and therefore releasing earlier those that don't really meet their "standards".

Maybe they require a 3.0 to be initiated. So for first invite, in the past they would keep women that were below that (say maybe 2.75-2.99) just because the COULD to meet their release figure. They would have released them for second invite.

Say there are 9 chapters the PNM's can go to 6 and this happens with the three chapters with the highest recruiting strength. "Old" release figures she would have been invited back to all 9 chapters. So, knowing how PNM's are she probably would have kept all 3 of these chapters. With the "old" method for second invites she would have only had a max of 3 chapters b/c the other 3 would have automatically released her b/c of grades this round.

With the "new" method the 3 that would have released her after first invites now have to release her after the initial round (open house/welcome night/IceWaterTeas whatever the school calls it). So instead of having 9 she probably have a max of 6 chapters for the first invitational round. This gives her a better chance of having more invites for the second invitational. Instead of the max 3 she would have had with the first scenario, she now has a real chance to be invited to 6 chapters for second invites.

Let me think of wording here. The ideas is that she is closer to having the max number she can go to each round, than that she have invites from all chapters. So with a 9 chapter campus if they have three invite rounds and women can go to 6 for 1st invites, 4 for second invites and 2 for pref. She would not necessarily have 9 invites to 1st round but 4-7, for 2nd invites she would have 2-6 and for pref she would have 1-3. We want the PNM's to be able to make their "cuts" but we also don't want the chapters stringing them along only to release them on pref.

Edited to add: I think the new RFM will also help women getting released out of the process - meaning getting no invites and being out of recruitment.

SORUSH and PRUSH or ICS for that matter don't have anything to do with the release figure method used. The first two utilize the old method for figuring release figures. Basically the formula in the Green Book is put into the programing and based on past data figures out the release figure for each chapter. I don't know that ICS does this part. But, all three are basically databases for the recruitment process. They all assign id#, allow for input of invite list, accpet/regrets or priority (depending on if using SORUSH or PRUSH), keep lists of legacies, withdrawals and any other info put into them. ICS will do PNM choices either with accept/regret or prioritizing as well.

The new RFM (Release Figure Method) is not published by NPC and must be figured by an NPC representative. This person works with the College Panhellenic and Greek Advisor each day of recruitment to determine the number each chapter can invite back to each round. From there it's all the same as before. All school will be required in the next year or two to switch to using the new RFM. Additionally, each College Panhellenic will also need to determine their recruitment type - Fully Structured, Partial Structured, Minimally Structured or Continuous Recruitment (I think those are all the correct names). As you can tell from the names not all will need to use the RFM b/c they will not all be doing a "formal" recruitment as we all know and love!

COSIGN!!!

So there is no specific formula anymore? Has it become totally subjective? This sounds pretty dangerous to me.

Yes, there is a formula, but they are keeping it private b/c they don't want a company to take it, make a program and sell it to college campuses.

You are my math hero :D Thanks for that!