Quota Additions

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

The problem, as I see it, is that there seem to be huge numbers of QA's at the same time there are chapters not making quota. I am really torn on this, because I don't want women to go bidless, but on the other hand, it really hurts the smaller chapters.

I also don't know if there have been changes to the RFM over the years. As I understood it, back when I was in school the formula was:

invitations = (number of women still in recruitment/number of chapters) *(number of parties in the round/average return rate of the last three years)

So, if there were 500 women going to pref, and each woman could attend two prefs, and ten chapters, a chapter with a 100% return rate could issue 150 pref invitations, and a chapter with a 50% return rate could issue 300 invitations.

Perhaps the best thing would have been to work all the bugs out of RFM and get rushees/chapters used to it, and THEN up the quota additions. (The result being, theoretically, that quota additions wouldn't be needed.)

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Perhaps the best thing would have been to work all the bugs out of RFM and get rushees/chapters used to it, and THEN up the quota additions. (The result being, theoretically, that quota additions wouldn't be needed.)

That's what I'm saying. I understand why we want to place as many women as possible, but I'm not certain that QA is the way to do it.

Obviously I am a small-chapter advocate, and we've talked before on here about the way to make 18-year-old women consider the smaller chapters or chapters that may not be viewed as "top-tier". But with QA's as they are, aren't we effectively telling them that there is less reason to consider the smaller chapters? If a bid were less of a sure thing, would women be more honest with themselves about where they belong?

On the sororities' side, we very often have to gauge a PNM's interest, and release women who we'd love to have in favor of women we think are more likely to join. For example, the triple XYZ legacy whose sister is the current president may not get invited back while a grade risk who we know wants to be in our chapter would. Shouldn't we put PNM's through the same type of thinking process?