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Originally Posted by 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.
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You are correct, the RFM does level the playing field for smaller chapters. It serves another function, though, which is what I was referring to. Some campuses guarantee a bid to a woman who ranks all chapters attended after preference (and goes to all invited parties throughout recruitment for which she has space). This guarantee is possible because of quota additions. Some people don't like QAs because they "make the big bigger", but if a chapter is getting tons of QAs, then they need to trim down their bid list next time to prevent this, a product of the RFM.