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Some campuses have gone to the method of PNMs ranking their houses the night after parties. If they can return to 4 out of 6, then they would rank 4 as #1 and then they would rank the rest as #2, #3. Then, instead of panhellenic potentially issuing 6 invitations for the PNM then to decide, the PNM only gets 4. Sometimes it will be her top 4 (if she was invited to all of those parties). In that case, she would never know if whe was invited by her final 2 chapters or not. If she was NOT invited to all of her top 2, then she would have those where she was invited PLUS any from her bottom list in order to get as close to max as possible. In this way, no PNM receives more than the maximum number of invitations.

It is intended to minimize the impact of tent talk. It also cuts down the "she received 6 invitations, how come I only received 4?" sort of thing. I guess you could say it sort of equalizes recruitment. Plus, PNMs are really deciding based upon how they felt that night instead of what they hear from "everybody else".

In our school, it seems to be very successful. We have combined it with the RFM and although the first year was a bit shaky, now it is doing really well, with most chapters at or over quota.