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Originally Posted by LaneSig
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Is RMF working? If I am correct, the idea of RMF is to get girls interested in chapters that they normally wouldn't look at a second time. Isn't the idea to also help chapters that have traditionally been struggling with numbers and recruitment?
I had a conversation with a GC sorority member where I asked if RMF is helping with retention. On a couple of campuses (I won't mention them publically, pm me if you want specifics) it seems as if chapters that have traditionally not met quota are now meeting quota, but not retaining their pledges. In these situations, is RMF really helping the chapters?
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That sounds like a chapter problem rather than a recruitment problem if a chapter is experiencing a lot of women depledging/withdrawing. That's not something RFM can address. Those chapters need to identify why women are depledging and fix those problems. If a chapter is truly doing their best to integrate new members into the chapter, depledging should be pretty rare and for clear-cut reasons.
Or, do you mean that chapters experience a lot of no-shows on bid day, meaning women feel "forced" to rank all of their preference chapters and end up matching with a chapter they don't intend to join? I know someone from a chapter like this (not my alma mater, not my sorority). She told me that Panhellenic tells the PNMs they have to rank all of their preference chapters, so her chapter MATCHES quota, but they get a lot of no-shows come bid day. She said one year, only a third of those that matched came to bid day. That's just really deflating for a chapter that doesn't need any more blows. Panhellenic isn't doing them any favors by trying to force PNMs their way.
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