[PsychTau2]

Lengthening the recruitment period might increase quota because it might boost the retention rate (especially if PNMs go home over the weekend or have night classes). That could be their line of thinking.

I'm also wondering if fall is the "larger" recruitment or the smaller one. They may have a great idea in dividing all the PNMs into 2 groups...but they may not be expecting 200 PNMs. When my campus restructured their "formal" recruitment this spring, we were only planning on having 2 PNM groups (traditionally they've only had about 30 girls go through). We wound up with 55 starting and 34 finishing (compared to 40 starting and 16 finishing the year before)...once we realized how signups were going and that they all showed up on orientation night, we quickly went to Plan B and divided up into 3 PNM groups.

This sounds a little like they are moving more toward PSR or a more relaxed "formal" recruitment...is that correct kayla0deegee?

ETA: After reading what 33girl had to say I thought of another idea. Ifyou are really expecting 200 PNMs, they might be dividing the PNMs into "Alpha" group and "Beta" group. Then the groups alternate nights...Alpha Group has 4 Parties on Monday, Beta has 4 Parties on Tuesday, etc. Each night, they may divide up into 3 smaller groups to rotate through the parties. That way if a girl has class on Monday night, she can come to Tuesday nights parties and not miss out on anything. The drawback is that the sororities will have to repeat their parties 3x on Monday, and the SAME parties 3x on Tuesday. A creative solution, but that would just suck.

Now that I'm thinking too much about this, I'll just stop!

PsychTau