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Originally Posted by Life is good
Just wondering why some on the list don't have numbers posted from last year... Kappa, Chi O, AGD... and speaking of Chi O I've heard that they only asked 400 girls back for the "16" Party.. is that possible? How can they be that harsh after what is basically an Open House?
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I really want to drive the point home here that the chapter(s) are not being "harsh". They are being *required* to cut more girls.
My understanding of the RFM (Release Figure Method) style of sorority recruitment is: the more successful a chapter is at recruitment (the more popular they are), the more girls they have to cut. In effect, it is expected that they won't have any trouble filling their parties and, therefore, are not allowed to over-invite a surplus of girls that don't statistically have a chance of getting a bid. That way, as others have pointed out, the chapters don't get the hopes up of girls that aren't as likely to make it to the end.
The chapters that historically have a lower return rate are allowed to issue "extra" invitations in order to increase their chances of getting a full pledge class. Again, by the stronger recruiting chapters releasing more women earlier, it allows those PNMs to more realistically focus on the chapters that want them and not on "dream chapters" that they didn't have as good of a chance with.