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Originally Posted by 33girl
Yes, drives it into the ground.  Seriously, this statement sounds like the rush equivalent of "throw shit to the wall and see what sticks." |
I think you misunderstood (or I didn't pick up on your sarcasm this time?). "Quantity drives quantity" does NOT mean have a little recruitment party and bid as many women who show up so long as your chapter has space and inevitably you'll have a little bit of quality in your chapter.
Quite the opposite. It means getting off your butts and reaching out to MEET, not bid, a large quantity of women in natural settings (not recruitment parties), befriend them, introduce them to sisters in a non-sorority context, and then introduce them to the chapter. The idea is to have as large of a pool as possible from which to choose members. A chapter isn't going to increase the size of their pool by having the cutest skit or most expensive food at their recruitment parties. A chapter increases the size of their pool by meeting women. It sounds so simple, meet people, but the general philosophy of recruitment has been "let PNMs come to you".
Say a chapter of 30 has 10 slots to fill to reach total. If they have a little recruitment party and 25 PNMs show up, they might think they're doing well, until grades, credits (either too few or jr/sr status), competition with other chapters, PNMs not serious about joining, PNMs who can't afford it, plus PNMs that your chapter just doesn't want, you name it, take its toll. No way that chapter is getting 10 members who are truly outstanding from a pool of 25.
However, if each member of this chapter of 30 gets 5 women interested in joining, that's a much bigger pool, and the chapter is much more likely to have higher quantity of high quality new members from a 150-PNM pool than a 25-PNM pool. Quantity drives quality.