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Sonoma State Recruitment
The campus changed recruitment this year from 4 rounds all on Labor Day weekend (including the Friday), to 3 rounds in mid-Sept. They also added a non-mandatory "meet the sororities" about a week before recruitment called "House Tours" (even though there is no greek housing.) The House Tours was a mini round one, with all 6 panhellenic chapters meeting the potential PNMs for 15 minute rounds. There are two locals on this campus and they are Panhel-Associate members, but they did not participate.
So prior years the 4 rounds were: Open House (all 6 chapters), Philanthropy (max 5 chapters), Sisterhood/Theme (max 4), Preference (max 2). The new 3 rounds are: Sisterhood (all 6 chapters), Philanthropy (max 4) and Preference (2).
There were about 15% fewer PNMs this year, while enrollment was down 12% (275 PNMs, a few years ago it was 600!)
I believe the change was triggered by the sororities feeling that recruitment was too intense time-wise. I do not know how they adjusted the RFM figures since they dropped a round.
Quota was 32, AOII matched 32 new members. It looked like all the chapters made quota ( from watching the "running home" and giving up on trying to count!)
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