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Originally posted by EPTriSigma
When we had Spring recruitment on our campus (Minnesota State), multipul positives....
1.) Grades as a whole (for pledges and chapters) went up and stayed up.
2.) We had better retention rates.
3.) The ratio of those who had been pinned in to those who had gone through to initiation increased.
The one major downfall of Spring recruitment we faced was that it killed our overall greek population on campus. Our numbers across the board were cut in half in some cases. Fall is the best time for numbers.
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How much did your retention rate improve with spring recruitment? If you retain members for 4 years, it lessens the need to get huge fall pledge classes, half to two-thirds of whom will not be participating by their senior year.
Totals and quotas were set up when women routinely dropped out of college to get married. It was well known that women would not be around for four years so you needed to pledge them quickly - "retention" probably wasn't even in the vocabulary. That isn't the case anymore. I think there should still be a total/quota system to try and keep all the sororities on an even keel, but I don't see the point of crowing about making quota if you can't ever get to initiation with a complete NM class (let alone graduation).
This is really off the real topic - although I agree with deferred, I don't agree with the admin's means to achieve it.