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My school just started using release figures on recruitment software this past spring. The numbers we have to cut are based on each individual chapter's recruitment history. When our consultant from nationals came to visit us this year, she told me that these systems are only 'fair' after a few years. The initial years try to even out the sororities.
Since our chapter was one of the chapters achieving total, the numbers we had to cut by seemed unfair. I'm not sure if these systems really work. Even though a girl may give a smaller sorority more of a chance, she might still find out the same thing. Sometimes you just don't feel comfortable in certain places.
I know plenty of girls who dropped out of rush because they were cut by their top choices. As VP of Membership, I can say that we cut a lot more girls than we would have liked, and there are perfectly wonderful girls who have gone unmatched because they didn't get a sorority they fit in with. It might be fair to give everyone an equal chance of being considered, but I don't think it will prove effective on our campus.
When 5 out of 7 of the NPC sororities are at, above, or near campus total, and the remaining two are less than half of that, it is not fair to those achieving total to not be able to raise total.
Also, statistics nationally have always shown that lowering total will only attempt to kill Greek life on a campus. It will just make everyone smaller.
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Jenny
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