My School is Doing Away With Formal & Quota

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So my school decided not to have Formal Recruitment anymore. We had only 13 potentials come last year. The weather might have had a little to do with it. We have deferred and it snowed on the first day. Plus, we are a commuter campus. On the other hand, we knew there was something wrong when one chapter had 1 NM from Formal, then had a class of 15 the next week.

So our solution was to just not have Formal anymore. We also threw out quota. Quota would basically be ceiling (or house total) which is 45 on our campus.

This is what we will be doing instead:

Wed 9/8 & Thurs 9/9 is a Greek Expo and sign up from 11-3. (They're just info tables)

Mon 9/13 is a Round Robin where PNMs will go to each chapter for 20 mins.

Tues 9/14 open COBs, ecah chapter choses their own location, PNMs can go to anyone they want to
AEPhi - 6:30-8
Tri Delta - 8-9:30

Wed 9/15 open COBs
DG - 6:30-8
SDT - 8-9:30

Tues 9/21 open COBs
SDT - 6:30-8
DG - 8-9:30

Wed 9/22 open COBs
Tri Delta - 6:30-8
AEPhi - 8-9:30

Thurs 9/24
Pref 6-10
Each sorority will have 50 mins, PNMs can go to as many as they like, all 4 if they want to

Fri 9/25
Bid Day
PNMs will pick up their bids in the Greek Office between 11 & 2, they must make a decision on which bid they are accepting right away. There is no bid matching and no quota (unless the chapter reaches 45).
Sororities can pick up their New Member list after 2.
Since 9/25 is Yom Kippur, sororities can choose to have bid day celebrations on 9/24 or 9/25.

We will do the same in the spring.

Any thoughts on this? I'm a little shaky with the no quota, I see the big getting bigger and the small getting smaller. But, we're all about the same size and we don't have to extend bids to all the PNMs. On the other hand, it could benefit all 4 of us and we'll be able to increase celing or possibly invite another sorority to colonize. I just hope we have a good showing on Potentials, I heard there was a lot of interest. We'll see. I'll keep you posted.