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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
Um, I don't think you know who you are talking to on this one. My point is that getting a list with only half of quota on it is not somehow worse than getting a list with quota and having only half the women show up. Both are horrible, but I think that there are, in most cases, at least a *few* women who show up because they are bound for a year.
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Yeah, but then you are on pins and needles hoping they won't drop (because you often know EXACTLY who they are because they returned the shirt you lent them with tears from mascara stains all over it). I'd rather get half of quota and then move on - to, for example, the women who would be great members but just didn't want to go through formal rush - than spend all year babysitting.
Plus, getting half of quota you can explain away ("our nationals really cracking down on grades and we had to cut more heavily," "we are restructuring," "quality not quantity" etc etc) and kind of BS to maybe make it seem like your idea. If you get quota of 50 on paper but only 25 of them show up, there's no way to get around it. Half the women you asked to join your sorority want nothing to do with you - even at the price of spending a year of their college career not participating in Greek life.
As far as the smaller chapters having too many to handle in parties - couldn't you accomodate that (without adding pointless rounds for the "everyone we invite will want us" chapters) by just adding a few more rounds and giving some chapters more breaks? Of course, there's the danger of PNMs figuring out that the more popular chapters are the ones with less parties (i.e. self fulfilling prophecies).