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Originally posted by AlphaXiGirl
The chapter also needs to take a good, hard look at their formal recruitment for this year and determine what they need to do differently next year.
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I agree with this! She basically said that they were really trying to be more selective this year and ended up releasing many girls that probably would have increased their numbers. But at her campus it is just as bad to take a full pledge class of duds as it is to end up with a small pledge class. In fact, it can be WORSE!
She is mostly upset because she is in a position of leadership and a lot of the members were blaming them on bid day for gambling their numbers away. In other words, the chapter thought they were being too picky by not inviting back some girls. From what I gathered from our conversation, it sounded like they were trying to rush above their level (that sounds bad, but you know what I mean, rushing stronger girls than they normally do) and it backfired. I know they are really great at COB because she gave me like their old statistics and stuff, but the chapter morale is low coming off of this and I just feel badly for her because it's hard to get the troops to rally when their in a funk.
Anyway, I didn't think anyone would have an answer, but I was hoping to offer her some encouragement. As you can imagine, she's a little embarrassed and doesn't really want to reach out for help to explain. If you know the chapter, they probably need a little pick-me-up from nationals right now. Their chapter is one of the old-timers and I know that the national organization would want to help!
