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Thanks for the responses. I understand more now, and I am especially glad to be corrected on the COB misinformation.
I am figuring out this system is a whole lot more involved/complicated than I ever imagined. Like, do these "RFM specialists" travel around, or does each campus have its own? Do they control for chapters inviting back totally overlapping girls (ie ladybug's scenario of 3 chapters, same 100 pnms and quota of 40) or is it just based on total numbers? Is the formula based on last years' numbers, a few years' data, or just pnm rankings from the current parties that you just finished? I'm not really asking for answers--and they're probably buried in another thread somewhere--but the more I find out, the more questions I have. It's amazing how little most of us actives know about how the process actually works. (And I'm a senior and don't ever have to worry about it again!) You really have to trust the people running the show, and it's sometimes hard when you see stuff like this happen.
BTW, all the new member numbers I have heard are dead-on with what irishpipes has posted. The quota number she lists is what we were told. Also, A and B have new member pictures or lists on their blogs/websites that verify the size of their incoming classes.
Again, I am not in the know, but it sounds like A really cut too heavily early on and ended up with way too few girls at pref (like less than 2x where x=quota). I don't know if that was voluntary, but we have so many good girls go through that I can't imagine even an historically strong recruiting chapter making bigger cuts than they have to. If it was because of the RFM "formula", hopefully they'll make some adjustments in the future.
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