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Originally posted by shadokat
Fuzzie--
You're entitled to being negative 
Let me just say that I know chapters who just don't do it with formal recruitment. It's unfortunate, but not everyone is good at each thing, and COB is their outlet. Now, I agree that on many campuses, COB is not the best way to go, as it's looked at badly if a chapter has to COB after formal recruitment.
If all of the chapters have to COB after formal recruitment, then the ceiling is set far too high for the campus. Most NPC sororities base their "standards" on the campus total. For instance, one of the chapters in my province is on a campus where they are the largest sorority with 40, but campus total is 60. SO, when HQs looks at those #s, the chapter gets warnings about low numbers. Obviously, the ceiling on this campus should be lowered, but many times, Greek Advisors aren't educated on this.
I still believe in the thought that there are always girls who want to pledge, but they just don't know it. That may sound silly, but if the system is offering all that it can, people will want to join! I mean, who wouldn't want to be Greek 
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Good point as usual, my sister!
The issue that we had on my campus when I was active was that the type of women who were drawn to formal rush were not drawn to my chapter.
During the first round, the rushees had to attend all seven sororities. When it came to second round, the majority dropped us. One year a rep from International was visiting during rush, and she thought that we were great. We did everything that we needed to do to have a successful rush. The next day fewer than one quarter of the rushees returned for round two. Our rep said that we had done a great job and didn't know what had gone wrong. We had to COB in compete. We were smaller than the rest, but that didn't stop us from having fun and contributing to the campus.