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Originally Posted by ECUJacob
^^ Just curious, Nick. If you had 19 "well-qualified potentials", what made you turn away 9 of them? I assume that it had something to do with the chapter vote.
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We weren't concerned very much with growth this semester- we're only graduating 7 men next Spring, so our original recruitment goal was only 7 (just enough to stay even for the year and use Spring Rec. for growth). As well, our Pledge Educator requested a Pledge Class of less than 12 men in order to ensure the success of his Pledge Program (he's taking 18 credits, is an RA and a campus Tour Guide- he couldn't manage a larger class than this).
During the Chapter Vote at the end of Formal Recruitment we debated for a long time over every potential and decided only to extend bids to the 10 we felt could bring the most to our fledgling Colony.
I'm not sure who said it, but during our discussion one of us threw out the following quote, and I think it definitely described the selection process in our Colony:
"Beta can be good for everyone... but not everyone can be good for Beta"
Not that the 9 we turned away couldn't have been good Betas, but we just couldn't see them contributing
as much to the Colony as the 10 we selected.