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Originally Posted by exlurker
Zillini, I'm confused, as usual. Maybe I'm just not aware of a change ... but I thoought that at most / all fully structured formal recruitments, a PNM could NOT decline an invite IF she needed that invite to make a "max possible" number of parties for a particular round. Depending on how many invites someone got, she might not be able to decline any, even ones she wanted to. Am I really wrong?
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My apologies. I admit I am not used to the new (at least for this campus) preferential ranking system. Now PNMs group/rank the chapters they attended for a round, then sororities submit their invitation lists. After a little computer magic, PNMs simply receive a party schedule for the next round.
My earlier response came out of habit from spending so many years with the accept/regret system. A PNM was not forced to accept the max invitations, although not maximizing her options risked not receiving a guaranteed bid. There were PNMs who were willing to take this risk because they knew without a shadow of a doubt that they would not accept a bid from XYZ.
I understand the logic behind RFM and the preferential ranking. The goal is that if a PNM gives XYZ a chance by spending more time with them, then maybe she will realize that this is a sisterhood where she could be happy. That is a wonderful idea in theory, but let's be honest things don't always work that way. There will always be PNMs who won't change their minds no matter how much time they spend with a chapter.
I personally think it is unfair for those chapters who are in essence being strung along hoping to change minds. On top of that, these chapters are typically the smallest and therefore are being forced to spend a lot of resources (both in sister power and money) recruiting women who will not accept a bid from them. Is it really helpful to these small chapters to make them recruit with 1 active to 3 or 4 PNMs when there is no chance of "getting" 2 or even 3 of them? Wouldn't it be better to have a 1:1 or 1:2 recruiter to PNM ratio with those they truly have a chance at?
Just my thoughts.