NPC- informal cancelled.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by Soliloquy

I think it's silly that a secondary recruitment event cant be held within NPC guidelines, even if a house is at total. There will obviously be less girls, so why not raise total by 15 to accomodate 15 new pledges? Isn't that what pretty much happens during formal? I mean maybe like 20 girls graduate beforehand, but quota may be 35 during formal, meaning that mathematically- they go over by 15. Get my drift? See why I said it was silly?

Informal recruitment is supposed to "level the playing field" by allowing chapters under total the chance to bid up to total. At pretty much every school (except Ohio State) chapters may take quota during formal even if it puts them over total.

If Panhellenic were to have a "quota" for formal AND informal, smaller chapters would lag behind because they could miss quota both semesters without a chance to catch up while the larger ones get bigger and bigger. Not to mention, it would really encourage suiciding since if you don't get the invites you hoped for, you can just drop out and try next semester without having to wait a year, which would presumably also hurt the smaller chapters.

It's really great that your school has the parity to have 3 of 4 chapters at total and 1 just 2 under total. Has this been the case for a while? If chapters are consistently making quota and reaching or exceeding total, then you would be correct in that there needs to be growth somewhere, either by raising total or by adding a new chapter. However, if this is the first time that this has happened, I can see why a campus Panhellenic would be hesitant to raise total or look to extension, because they want to see success in the form of stability and equality, along with good retention and academic success, for a few years.

[AGDee]

Without some historical recruitment numbers, it's difficult to say whether this campus should expand or raise Total. Ideally, our goal is to have all chapters reach Total through ONE formal recruitment per year. This means, one semester of recruitment, having a new member class, doing Initiation, etc. It's a lot less work for chapters to only have to have one recruitment per year. This might sound harsh, but the goals of NPC groups are to maintain Total, not to ensure that every woman on campus who wants a bid will get one. They may have good reasons for not raising Total just yet. If this is the first time that almost all the chapters are at Total because of an unusually high number of PNMs in the fall, they may want to wait to see if that trend continues. If all the chapters are at Total because, 3 years ago, they had an unusually large recruitment and many members of all chapters are seniors who will graduate in the Spring, it might not be time to raise Total yet.