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Originally Posted by FSUZeta
but if seniors graduate in december or members drop due to hours, or grades or financial reasons and the chapter goes below total, the chapter could pledge new members (up to total) in the spring.
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It's very much easier said than done. The pool of women who are at all interested (or can afford it...very many are on financial aid) is small. Many times during COB all sororities are interested in the same 30 women. I know we all attempt to pull from different areas to avoid this, but it's usually these same 30 or so that end up accepting bids somewhere.
And I think we ALL agree that none of us is willing to take quantity over quality...that has just caused so many problems and so much heartache that we don't.
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why have pnm numbers declined? has the female enrollment at your college declined?
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Actually freshmen classes have been progressively declining...as I understand it the decline of applicants to both NPC and IFC recruitment/rush has been decreasing accordingly. Only 30-odd guys rushed last fall.
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i am not targeting your campus per se, because as i said i see this at my daughters campus(and other campuses)too. it is tiresome to feel that you are continually planning and holding recruitment events-you get burned out on recruitment. believe me i know! since no one on your campus is at total, it is not as big a deal right now. but i do think that panhellenic should re-evaluate the total figure and possibly lower it.
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the point i am trying to make is that when sororities first fall below total and do not get back up to total, and this is allowed to continue, they will find themselves falling farther and farther behind in the membership game, while the bigger sororities go that much more over total. then it becomes almost impossible for the smaller chapters to catch up.
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Maybe eventually. Right now even those that are very significantly smaller are not in danger of "losing the game". They are very strong chapters with just the women they have right now. There's just not much to be done and we all know it. All our HQ would like us to make total...some are pushy. Some are very, very pushy...but what they sometimes don't realize is if these smaller chapters choose quantity over quality they WILL lose out to the three larger chapters.