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Originally Posted by DTD Alum
Football Fan,
Although the huge drop in numbers is shocking, I could buy that. Just from what I know about Panhellenic recruitment, what I'm really confused if all the numbers are correct that Tri Delt would have 50 and ADPi 64. Without getting too much into "tiers", neither is a chapter that struggles getting quota, and neither has been much larger than the other in the past 6-7 years. So the reason I'm curious about other numbers is to see what exactly went down this year.
Also worth mentioning that I know in 2007 that at least four chapters had 69 PNMs, but I have no idea what quota was. That year most chapters were within 3-4 PNMs of each other. This year it's 14? Just really, really abnormal.
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Because they traditionally have lower return rates to their parties, they are allowed to invite more women to their parties, including prefs, than the more "popular" chapters who have higher return rates. This is meant to assure that they meet quota, but often times, this number is either overshot or leads to a situation where they also have a list filled with PNMs who only have them left as an option. When it comes to bid matching, quota additions are added to place as many women as possible. If you have a longer bid list than another chapter with a situation such as I described, you end up with a very large class. The chapters with higher return rates are usually running on a razor sharp margin and competing against the other highly competitive groups for the same girls. It makes it more difficult to go way over total when RFM is done correctly.
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