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Originally posted by AXiD670
Yes, I believe so. I remember it sounds like one of those 4 choices from the "menu" of recruitment styles. My undergraduate campus was thinking of doing this, but last I heard they scrapped it. Which was good, b/c it would have been bad for them. On that campus, of the 5 sororities, there are 2 that everyone wants to join, there are 2 that are in the middle, and there is one that is the smallest and always struggles. By not forcing the PNM's to go to every group each day, they would have all naturally gravitated to the top 2 houses, and those 2 houses would always have the biggest pledge classes, and many girls would have gone bidless. At least, that's what I think would have happened.
It seems to me that in a system such as this, while no quota would be okay, there should be a max amount of PNMs a sorority can extend bids to. It's not fair for one group to take 14 of the 15 PNMs going through recruitment.
Especially w/ no total, the big will just get bigger and bigger and bigger. Then, there will be a house w/ only a handful of girls, and yes, they will suffer and probably eventually fold.
I don't agree w/ this particular recruitment structure. Especially on a smaller campus such as this one. Of course, on this campus, there are only a handful of PNMs, but if one group takes 10 PNMs every year, and another group only takes 2 PNMs every year, it will eventually take its toll. But that's just my view.
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I think NPC really meant this recruitment strategy to be used when the most popular houses are close to total. This would force them to limit the number of bids they give out (since they can't exceed total at all, unlike formal recruitment where even the biggest house can get quota), which allows the smaller houses to give out as many bids as they like and see who accepts. This mixed with the fact that total can be changed yearly, could work well.
Unfortutately, I've heard of a lot of campuses which have very high totals compared to the number of girls actually in the houses. If all the houses are at 50% of total, then the situation describe where the big get bigger and the small die could definately occur.
My big beef is that this recruitment strategy doesn't really force the PNMs to keep their options open - they can basically suicide after the first day?