[fire1977]

Sorry I've been emailing a lot about this issue, lol.

They used to raise ceiling to 65 every spring for quite a few semesters so everyone could participate in spring recruitment, lol I'm guessing they stopped my junior year? that would explain why you don't remember it dani.

Actually dani - the people you normally need the numbers aren't the ones who are hurting, but you were right in other respects. I talked to your chapters' advisor the night that we heard about it.

The other part you missed was that they wanted to move FORMAL recruitment to spring, but that got nixed now. Following the new NPC guidelines would actually lower total if anything so that's what they are voting on next week. A great deal of the sororities - including DPhiE are losing a lot of members after this spring. It probably could have helped us, but I didn't think it was fair to everyone.

I think the thought was that everyone would COB to 70 come back with around 50 in the fall, take quota with anyone not being at ceiling being able to COB up to 50 and then they could raise it again in the spring. But I could only think of 3 chapters that are motivated and experienced enough to actually COB up to 70 and COB'ing 10 or more women is kind of pushing it in the spring!

roqueemae - Pitt does Fully Structured recruitment complete with quota and hand bid matching in the fall, and they do something similar to what NPC would call a minimally structured recruitment in the spring. Our panhellenic helps the sororities set times for recruitment parties and helps generate interest from PNM's-only sororities not a total participate, which is probably different from what your campus is looking to do. I'm guessing it's a bit different than the actually NPC ideal - the big drawback to the way they do it is PNM's can get more than one bid and they get to choose which one they accept, so if your chapter only has 4 spots you can only extend 4 bids and you have to hope your 4 PNM's accept your bid or else you have will have to COB that spot. It's weird but I can't imagine them moving to strict COB.