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We've all seen it a zillion times on here, and from my work with collegiate women today, most would prefer to not be greek at all before they would consider joining a "Lower Tier" chapter. It's not all, but many. Lots of schools have high ISP numbers, meaning the women are maximizing their options til the end, but come the end, they know that they won't accept a bid from anything other sorority than their top choice.

I had to deal with a mother this semester whose daughter was a legacy of a chapter. Her daughter absolutely did NOT want her mom's sorority, but had her heart set on another sorority. When it came to ranking parties, she was only ranking the ones she was going to, and then her regret chapters she just had ranked as 2, 3, 4 based on where they were on the screen. So for instance if she had 3 chapters to go back to and had to regret 2 others, she'd rank the 3 chapters as ones, and then 2 and 3 were just ranked by however they showed up on her screen. Needless to say, her legacy chapter was an ALPHA, and the stuff was appearing in alphabetical order. So while she said she wasn't ranking them highly, they usually ended up as her first regret chapter, and when she lost one of her top choices, the legacy chapter was the first to come into play. At the end of it all, she got a bid to the legacy chapter, and said no way. She said she'd rather wait a year and try to go through again than take a bid from them. We told her that her chances for going Greek decrease as she will be a junior, and she said she didn't care, she didn't want the bid.

Anyway, long story short, lots of factors play in, but I do think RFM is working. With all of the expansion that we've seen, I know there have been several schools who had a weak recruiting chapter or a smaller chapter but voted for expansion anyway, and it will more than likely be at the expense of that smaller chapter.