Bumping Systems

[KDMafia]

Hey Everyone,

I know it's been awhile since I've been around but I need some feedback on recruitment and I figured this was one of the best places to come.

Basically my feedback is on different bumping systems and there effectiveness. I'm going to be pretty detailed to now so I apologize in advance if this post is super long!

The issues is that even though the chapter I advise has been steadily making quota plus additions for the past several years, and is currently only one under total with a COB even coming soon, we still have one of the lowest priority rankings after the first two nights of recruitment (this means the least number of PNMS ranked us as 1). This completely changes after the 3rd round of recruitment (skit night) where we jump to number 1 or 2 out of six sororities.

We are trying to figure out how to rectify this situation as we feel we are losing some strong women these first two rounds. We have a good return rates, however this may mean that we are getting girls who have been cut from their top houses and have to come to us instead and we are probably losing strong women who are getting asked back to all the chapters.

One of our problems we feel is our bumping system. We have 41 sisters and our first two rounds are 35 minutes and 40 minutes. We have been using bump groups of 2-3 with also a few floaters. We are thinking that we need to have more women talking to these girls the first round. The way I am thinking is that, odds are you are not going to really get to know a girl any better in 15 minutes then you would in 8-10 so why not cycle more sisters through. This way the PNM will leave the chapter room feeling like she has met more people which should work better in helping develop a positive image of the chapter. The issue becomes how do we design bump groups when you have 41 sisters and approximately 20 PNMS for each party? The other issue is that interest in recruitment (we do deferred) is already incredibly high and we may be looking at pledge classes of 18-20 when we are used to 12-13. Hopefully they will just add more parties to each round but don't want to count on it happening and want the chapter to be prepared for way more girls in the room then they're used to!

So that's our issues, any advice on bumping systems that will help the PNMS meet more sisters and how do we structure them with only 41 members?