Is this ok?

[SororityCutie]

It seems this new way of matching as many PNMs as possible has been hurting the smaller chapters more.
The smallest chapter on campus took about 5 under quota, and the largest took about 10 over quota. All this seems to do is put a wider gap between the two and make it more difficult, if it's possible at all, for the smaller chapter to catch up.
(And I also wanted to point out that these aren't large chapters, so 5-10 really makes a difference)

[lawgal]

Perhaps it depends on the school. Although we don't have all the results from U of F for instance, of the two groups reporting the most over quota (whether through QA or snap bids we don't know) one was the smallest chapter and the other was below total as well last year (based on the numbers in the scholarship reports). U of F is fortunate to have 16 really great sororities and from an outsider's view it looks like RFM is helping to keep all of them strong.

[Kansas City]

Originally Posted by SororityCutie

It seems this new way of matching as many PNMs as possible has been hurting the smaller chapters more.
The smallest chapter on campus took about 5 under quota, and the largest took about 10 over quota. All this seems to do is put a wider gap between the two and make it more difficult, if it's possible at all, for the smaller chapter to catch up.
(And I also wanted to point out that these aren't large chapters, so 5-10 really makes a difference)

Coming from a university with campus total of 75, I wouldn't necessarirly say that this hurts the small chapters more since the smaller chapters who fall under campus total can COB all year long while the larger chapters (at or above campus total) do not have this option and can only recruit during one week of the year.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Kansas City

Coming from a university with campus total of 75, I wouldn't necessarirly say that this hurts the small chapters more since the smaller chapters who fall under campus total can COB all year long while the larger chapters (at or above campus total) do not have this option and can only recruit during one week of the year.

Yep exactly. The smaller chapters can still be picking up women now to get up to total. If for some reason your panhel or school is preventing this, notify your regional panhel rep immediately.

[ladybug12]

The new release figure method really does help smaller chapters because it requires chapters with higher return rates to release more women, especially earlier in recruitment. Thus, larger groups can not "string along" women that they have little intention on pledging.

The result is that more PNMs are staying in the system, perhaps giving some sororities a better look and finding happy homes...when they previously may have dropped out of recruitment when all of the "bigger houses" released them before pref.

It does make the quota and quota additions numbers look strange in some cases, but more chapters are making quota and we are pledging more women nationwide to our Greek Systems.

[33girl]

If the chapters are under 100 people, taking 10 QAs is WAY too much.

It almost sounds like even if girls were released from a sorority, they put it down on their bid card anyway. Are the sororities happy w/ the girls they got or are they looking at some of them going "WTF?"