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Originally Posted by carnation
I'm wondering if some Panhellenics are thinking they're doing themselves a double favor by (a) getting great PR with everyone reaching quota and (b) "helping" smaller groups enlarge. I can see where some people would never see the downside of this.
However, the depledging numbers I'm hearing about are huge and I don't think they're doing anyone any favors--except, maybe, the girls who come around to liking the groups they never really wanted and the groups they pledge but that doesn't seem to be a significant number. When a group loses at least half of a very big pledge class, who benefits?
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I'd love to see a comparison over time to know what we were really talking about.
One of the things to keep in mind, I think, is that I don't believe release figures have really increased the negatives for the PNMs in terms of actually pledging a group. Quota seems the same or higher at the campuses I'm familiar with, so if anything a girl has a slightly higher chance of pledging her top groups.
A girl might be cut hard after second round and be more likely to drop out, but in the olden days she might have gotten cut hard right before prefs or just not matched after prefs.
There may be a couple of chapters per campus who lose girls who were pressured to see recruitment all the way through with the groups they had left, but they were likely to be the chapters that just would have lost them earlier before release figures or would have been trying to snap bid them on bid day.
If nothing else, I think the "everyone made quota" PR does help because it takes an objective and public measure of recruitment success or failure off the table when people are talking about "struggling" chapters.