[DramaQueen42401]

[QUOTE=KAPital PHINUst;1539061]This is one area APO really needs to work on; they need to do a better job at, as I put it, weeding out all non-hackers that do not pack the gear to serve in my beloved frat. When we market APO as the all-inclusive frat, we get nothing but dead weight, resume padders, and letter-wearers. We need to start saying to folk "you aren't APO material. Go somewhere else."
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I haven't posted on here in a long time but I couldn't help but agree.

I suggested to my chapter, back in my college days, that we be a little more "hard" in the selection process. We accept whoever walks in the door into the org. Now, please understand that I don't mean only let certain people apply. I mean that no matter who applies, ask some serious questions, have an observation period, be more selective about the quality of who we let in our chapter, DO SOMETHING that weeds out who is here just to get a membership certificate and who is here to serve the chapter. We had retention issues, EVERY SEMESTER. I was getting sick of people pledging and then we never see them again because they weren't here for strong reasons. It was just something to do, for them. My pledge class had 16 people on it. The very next semester, maybe half of us returned, if that many, to be active.

My brothers were not interested in being more selective. They didn't want to seem like one of the council greek lettered orgs. They didn't want to seem like they only wanted to pick "popular" people or the "cool" people. They wanted to be inclusive and take EVERYBODY. It's not even about picking cool people or popular people. It's about choosing people who are going to WORK for APO!!

So, being outnumbered, I left it alone and the problem continued. Everytime I heard any comment related to "why don't members don't stay around" or "we need to improve our retention", I just shook my head.