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Some won't agree with the system no matter what, BUT...
1. This was a pilot of a new idea for figuring release figures sent down by NPC for this campus because...
2. In 2002, these were some of the figures:
735 women registered for FR
672 returned to second sets
632 returned to third sets
605 returned to Pref
566 signed bids
33 did not match
15 quota additions
11 chapters reached quota.
some chapters had an excess of PNMs at Pref
large discrepancy in number of PNMs returning to each chapter
PNMs had unrealistic expectations
25% of PNMs did not pledge
25% of chapters did not make quota
6% of PNMs did not match
3. Release figures were determined by weighting return rates for each set over the last 3 years. Looking at percentage of bid list used to make quota and number of PNMs that preference a chapter as #1 choice. The Green Book method looks only at return rates to Preference and doesn't take bid list performance into account.
4. The Pilot program was supposed to insure that invitations to preference are more reflective of how many PNMs are really needed to achieve quota. Goals were to increase the percentage of PNMs that match with their choice, decrease quota additions, increase the number of chapters that obtain quota through FR, increase the size of new member classes for the groups that don't usually attain quota thereby reducing the amount of COB that groups have to do. They wanted to make sure that PNMs were not unfairly encouraged, make sure fewer PNMs remain unmatched at the end of FR, allow chapters to focus on guests they are truly interested in and improve return rates making for a stronger U of M Greek Community.
I do not have the final figures to compare to this year. Since this was a Pilot, I'm sure there will be evaluations of whether it really worked or not. I know for sure that at the campus where I was a collegian, something like this would be useful. They use no release figures at all and some chapters invited 3 and 4 times quota back their prefs leaving several women unmatched.
If you think of it this way, it may make more sense... You are a PNM and you have two houses you absolutely LOVE and two that you like a lot and think you could be happy in any of them. The two that you LOVE invite you to pref even though you'd be at the bottom of their second list. The two that you like a lot invite you also and you're at the top of their lists so you'd definitely get in if you went to their pref. Of course, you have no way of knowing this, you only know that you got invited to your top two so you go to those prefs. Chances are, you won't get a bid. The top two chapters pretty much knew you weren't going to get a bid but invited a lot of women for "insurance". That just isn't fair to the PNM or to the other chapters.
When I went to college there were only 4 NPC groups and each group had a very distinct personality so chances were good that you'd really only like 1 or 2 chapters at all. But this campus has 15 chapters with an average of 80 women each BEFORE recruitment. It seems to me that with choices like that, there must be several that are similar to each other that you'd have many where you could be happy. Also, since the U of Mich is a very diverse campus, you'd probably find a group within any chapter with whom you would click and have fun. With so many options, it doesn't seem right that so many would drop out/be cut or not match.
Dee
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