oh, ok, cause as of last spring, when we were going over the budget, Panhellenic was saying they were expecting even higher numbers this year. We got a huuuuuuuuge surplus last year from everyone who went through recruitment, and they were predicting another sizable surplus this year, though obviously not budgeting for it. It's very possible that their expectations have changed over the summer seeing the numbers of women who have signed up come in, though.
This is incredibly inaccurate, but all of the actives in houses going through formal recruitment should have their Facebooks turned off by now, and 1244 are listed as attending formal recruitment on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130307317056712 . Granted, some of the attendees are girls who haven't deactivated their Facebooks yet or men or people who just click "attend" to every Facebook event invitation they receive.
I just checked the recruitment budget for this year, and if you divide the recruitment fees for this year by the total expected registration fees, it comes out to about 750-900 women, depending on how many people register before Aug 1 for $15 less. That's how many they budgeted for back in the spring, but as I understood it, they were expecting more to register.
Also, the numbers you gave could make it seem like almost 2/3 of the female freshman population went through formal, but there are also spring admits, sophomores, and some juniors who made up those 936. Just wanted to make that super clear.
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