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Also, the "success rate" really may not be indicative of a chapter's potential for success today. I'll use Maryland as an example. As has been said, Maryland has 14 active chapters and 6 inactive chapters. Only one of those chapters had closed "eons ago" in the 1920s. The other 5 closed between 1990 and 2000, one for risk management reasons. The other 4 had been small, struggling chapters.
However, this is before release figures or before quota was set to allow for optimum matching. Since I have recruitment data from the past 20 years at Maryland, I was looking at 1994.
Total women participating in bid matching=442
Quota=36
Number of sororities filling quota (out of 15)=5 (4 more came close, the other 6 missed it by a lot)
So, in case you don't have a calculator out, 442/15=29.5, so quota SHOULD have been around 29-30. Why on earth was quota set so ungodly high? NO WONDER smaller chapters closed!
I know Maryland can't be the only school that saw chapters close because release figures weren't figured out yet. If release figures had been used beginning in the 1980s, I really think we might still have Pi Phi, AGD, AXiD, and Gamma Phi, or at least, some of them.
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