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Originally Posted by 33girl
I don't think UGA (or any of the SEC schools for that matter) have to worry about raising total too high. We're talking that probably right now total is 200, raised to 219, and there are many chapters that have 210-215. When you have 215 members getting 4 more is a piece of cake and no reason to whine.
However, when you have 30 members and are trying to get to the too-high total of 50, getting 4 more is a huge undertaking (unless you know a set of conjoined quadruplets).
This all being said...it would be good if there was a way to say to PNMs "just because total has been raised, doesn't mean that you have a snowball's chance to get into Awesome ABC that dropped you after the first round."
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I do think there is a potential problem at SEC schools raising total every year. We have seen for the past couple of years that records are being broken with the number of women signing up for recruitment. For example, if you look at the Alabama numbers, the number of women signing up has almost doubled in 6 years. That is not sustainable growth.
At some point, the number of women interested and able to participate in recruitment, and that have the funds to pay dues will be reached and this surge in popularity is bound to swing back the other way. Right when it first happens, it may not be a problem and they may be able to adjust total down four or five at a time, but there is no motivation for the bigger groups to agree to do that.
This is self-correcting to a point with RFM, but if it continues and total is not adjusted down, there will still be a gap as the most popular groups will also have the best retention rates. It doesn't matter if quota is 60 and total is 180 if your graduation numbers are less than 50%. The smaller groups might try to reduce dues to keep up, but that also means changing their goals and activities.