After Several Years: What Do You Think of the New Release Figures?

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by Barbie's_Rush

Indeed.

I have a question about invites to rounds prior to RFM being put into place. From what I understand, it was a badge of honor for chapters to have huge numbers of pnms return with each round and really big cuts at the "popular chapters" were done toward the very end. The popular chaters ended up with almost all of the "best" pnms to chose from. The other chapters had a considerably smaller pool by preference because many pnms had previously dropped them while being strung along by the popular chapters. Before RFM, were there no rules or guidelines about how many pnms you had to cut each round?

They did have guidelines based on the return percentages over the prior 3 years. However, unless you had a Greek Adviser who was strong enough to hold to that, everyone pretty much fudged the numbers somewhat. I worked with a lot of chapters in the south (SEC and non-SEC) in the 80's and 90's and that was my experience.

[AXOrushadvisor]

Originally Posted by Titchou

They did have guidelines based on the return percentages over the prior 3 years. However, unless you had a Greek Adviser who was strong enough to hold to that, everyone pretty much fudged the numbers somewhat. I worked with a lot of chapters in the south (SEC and non-SEC) in the 80's and 90's and that was my experience.

They gave you numbers to release and it was "suggested" you followed them, but not enforced. We did follow them pretty closely, but the releases after round one were less then half of what they are with RFM. In fact, the first year we did RFM we started releasing prior to them giving us our figures (grades mostly) and almost had a heart attack when the number came to us. We couldn't believe that it would actually work. I always worry about a Chapter having a misstep and then getting messed up, but I haven't seen that happen only a chapter mixing up their invite and their regret list

We used to have a strong Chapter on campus who would not drop any girls except grades during round one and do all their cuts before preference! Their round 3 parties were HUGE!