PNM Ranking Question

[TxGirl]

When I went through at Texas in '89, we went back and ranked 1-14 every night. This was then shown to the chapters prior to them making their invite lists for the next rounds. The next day we went back and got our invites (at the crack of dawn) and then either accepted all (if we did not have more than allowed for that round) or cut enough chapters to get to the correct number. They stopped doing this after NPC came in and made a number or recommendations about changing our recruitment overall.

NPC doesn't (at this time) recommend using PRUSH because they feel it starts the women thinking of chapters in term of rank. I think this attitidue may be changing with implemenations of the new release figure method.

When used PRUSH should only be a cluster ranking as described previously - not an actual 1, 2, 3 for all chapters each round. 1, 2, 3 is only done on the bid card.

The thing with PRUSH is that the Recruitment Councilors and all of PH exec really need to be educated as to how it works and what it means for the PNM's. If they don't understand it could cause incorrect counciling. The PNM's need to understand that what they are doing isn't really picking who they will go back to, but those they would like to go back to most. They need to understand that mutual selection is still a part of the process using PRUSH and they may still be attending an event at the chapter they ranked last.

I think that it works well for several reasons.

First, you PH and/or Recruitment Councilors aren't required to stay up till all hours waiting for invite lists and then getting up at the crack of dawn to meet the PNM's so they can choose who they want to go back to and then hurry back to run the event lists so that the chapters can have them well before the events start.

Second, I do think that it helps some women save face when it comes to which chapters asked them back. If they don't go to XYZ they can always say they ranked them as a 2 b/c they really like ABC, MNO and FFF best.
And as said earlier, they rank in private so they actually rank what they feel and not have as much peer pressure to return to a chapter they didn't like.