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Originally Posted by LAblondeGPhi
One of the cruelest twists in RFM for small chapters is that the smaller/weaker chapters often have far more PNMs in their invitational rounds than the strong recruiting chapters.
The strong chapters know that they'll have a majority of PNMs choose to return for subsequent rounds, so they might only need to have a total of 80 PNMs in their first invitational round, where the smaller chapter may need 120 in order for both chapters to hit quota of 20 on bid day. This really exacerbates the problem.
The extra parties really have the ability to help out, but it seems that usually this is geared to making party sizes more manageable for all of the chapters, with no special consideration for a small chapter. What smaller chapters need is often a couple of extra parties that the rest of the chapters don't have (i.e. - 15 party time slots for PNMs to visit a max of 8 chapters, strong chapters use 12 time slots with 3 breaks, smaller chapters use all 15). Do any campuses do that?
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At Clemson we are only allowed to have as many sisters as the smallest chapter can provide on the floor for the first round, in order to even the playing field somewhat. I actually didn't even attend recruitment one of the nights because my bump group wasn't on the floor for that night. I don't think this extends past first round, but it's better than nothing.
I also know that we normally only hold three Preference parties when there are four time slots, which I believe gives smaller chapters the chance to hold four parties if they want to or need to.