[gee_ess]

Violet, I may be splitting hairs here, but I am under the impression that RFM is not designed to keep the "big from getting bigger" but to level the playing field for the smaller chapters. The RFM keeps stronger chapters from carrying large numbers of girls to later rounds, thus blocking those girls from returning to the smaller houses, which in turn, keeps them from considering these houses. This keeps the small houses from making quota because those pnm's were hanging on for a bid from a big house.

The big houses aren't in danger from getting bigger, but without RFM, the smaller houses stay small. In some cases, the quota is actually getting larger due to RFM - but more houses are making quota this way.

Again, this may just be a matter of semantics, but I always understood that RFM was designed to help smaller houses and really has not effected the bigger houses - unless you count the heavy cuts made in early rounds. They make quota regardless.