RFMs and QAs
 

Hi all. I haven't been very active with my sorority alumnae organization the last ten years :(. But I have a renewed interest in sorority life now that my daughter is heavily involved in recruitment at one of the most competitive universities. I also went to a much smaller university. What are RFMs and QAs? The whole process is like greek to me! :p

How nice that you finally remembered your sorority again now that it could benefit your daughter. Sorry all, but I'm sick to death of alumnae like this.

Why don't you use the search function to find these answers that have been posted about And explained ad infinitum.

I was trying to brief and ask a question. I have actually contributed to my sorority foundation every year for thirty years and used to serve on the board of my alumnae association. I moved to a new state, had a very ill child and simply did not have enough time to be heavily involved with the chapter at the closest university. I do however go occassionally to alumnae socials. I just joined this greek chat because I read some wonderful advice from several alumnae to PNMs. I didn't expect such a response.
I could ask my daughter who is very gracious and certainly doesn't think ill of me for wanting to learn more about recruitment now that I have more time to devote to it.

also...my knowledge won't benefit her at all now...she is VP of recruitment and very busy this week...

WTF?

I know that activity always picks up here during fall NPC recruitment, but man, this seems like the most brutal season in years.

RFM = "release figure methodology"

RFM sets different release numbers for different groups at each stage of recruitment. Strong recruiting chapters have to cut more women then weak recruiting chapters. The goal is to have every group get quota. This slideshow explains more:
http://www.slideshare.net/AFLV/npc-r...-figure-method

QA = "quota additions" If a potential new member attends every party to which she receives an invitation and she lists every chapter at which she attends preference parties on her bid card, she is guaranteed a bid on some campuses. If she does not match on the first set of bid lists, she will be added to a bid list as a quota addition. This means that a chapter with a full bid list will take quota plus. Different schools decide on where to put the QAs in different ways.

So you're basically sick to death of the 95 percent of your initiates who don't do anything with their organizations after they graduate.

Yeah, that would piss me off, too.

A lot of women have to take some time off from being active with their groups during the busiest times of their lives. I also know that a lot of women who are involved in with their alumnae associations/chapters/clubs don't necessarily understand the ins and outs of release figures and quota additions. I'm heavily involved with the operations/chapter development side of my fraternity and wouldn't understand all the new recruitment terms if I wasn't on Greekchat because we have recruitment specialists who focus on those things. You don't owe anybody an explanation :)

I'm the same way. I am an active adviser, but I would be lost with the ins/outs of recruitment without GC. Actually, I'm still kind of lost.

In any case, KDCat gives a great starting point, and there are tons of threads around here that give additional info.

I was not active for a really long time, too. I moved to the middle of nowhere after college. The closest alumnae chapter was 2 hours away. I donated, but didn't keep up. My chapter was 3 states away. Then I went to law school, started a career, and had two kids, one with ASD. It's only now that I've had time to volunteer. (My kid with ASD was mainstreamed last year and we stopped all of the outside therapies.)

Life happens.

thank you...I had simply "googled" the terms and first went to greek rank...Yikes!
I should have originally said I haven't been "active with recruitment" for ten years! I continue to write many recs every year and travel with six sorority sisters every other! I didn't realize my ignorance could launch such excitement! I will be more careful with my word choice if I ever ask another question.

To everything there is a season; for most of us, there have been times when we were really involved and times when we couldn't be. I mean, REALLY couldn't be. How can we judge her? We don't know what's happened.

GC At least helps me to keep up a little bit with the Advisors over recruitment, that way they don't leave in the dust, entirely.