Expected PNM Numbers

[Football Fan]

At some universities there is still time to register, but these are the latest posted here. Please add numbers if you have later news........

Auburn 1311
Alabama 1741
Arizona 1212

LSU 1052
Mississippi State 600
Missouri 1600

Univ. of Georgia 1496

[Benzgirl]

Its too bad that even though there might be a need for expansion, there are too many barriers for success of it.

[wildcatfan]

Official number from the Kansas State Recruitment Facebook page: 759. Largest in history for K-State. Actives go back today, parties start on Sunday August 14th.

[DubaiSis]

I heard Iowa has record registration going too, but I think they might have a short memory. In the 80's the chapters were bigger than they are today and there were 2 more chapters than now. I think something like 800 girls went through rush versus something like 600 recently. But in the recent past anyway, numbers are up at Iowa!

[unconquered14]

FSU posted they're at 1300, a record for the school

[ComradesTrue]

Alabama Panhellenic (@UAGreekAffairs) just posted on t_witter that there are 1737 PNMs signed up this year.

[OleMissGlitter]

U of TN-Knoxville: 816 signed up....I can't remember how many they had last year.

[ggforever]

UF does not close until next week. Recruitment begins on Thursday morning, so I am guessing it would close Wednesday night. Close to 1100 right now.

[kaeb]

I know USC (Southern Cal) is expecting higher numbers than last year. I don't recall what the numbers for last year were, but I think around 1,000?

[Football Fan]

kaeb,

From what I understand there are fewer expected than last year. According to my records the final number of registered pnms was 936 for the 2010 August recruitment.

In that year there were about 1535 women in the freshmen class. Females outnumbered males by 10%.

[ComradesTrue]

Official number at TCU is 802.

That may not sound like much compared to some of the SEC numbers, except that the typical entire freshman class (males and females) is only around 1800. Quota is expected to be around 60. For the size of the houses, quota works best around 40.

Good thing that 4 groups have been invited to present this fall. Looks like they will need at least 2 of them, if not more!

[kbelle]

My school's final numbers just got published. 1300ish pnms, including me! (Still not saying the school, just in case.) To me, that number is pretty intimidating.

[kaeb]

oh, ok, cause as of last spring, when we were going over the budget, Panhellenic was saying they were expecting even higher numbers this year. We got a huuuuuuuuge surplus last year from everyone who went through recruitment, and they were predicting another sizable surplus this year, though obviously not budgeting for it. It's very possible that their expectations have changed over the summer seeing the numbers of women who have signed up come in, though.

This is incredibly inaccurate, but all of the actives in houses going through formal recruitment should have their Facebooks turned off by now, and 1244 are listed as attending formal recruitment on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130307317056712 . Granted, some of the attendees are girls who haven't deactivated their Facebooks yet or men or people who just click "attend" to every Facebook event invitation they receive.

I just checked the recruitment budget for this year, and if you divide the recruitment fees for this year by the total expected registration fees, it comes out to about 750-900 women, depending on how many people register before Aug 1 for $15 less. That's how many they budgeted for back in the spring, but as I understood it, they were expecting more to register.

Also, the numbers you gave could make it seem like almost 2/3 of the female freshman population went through formal, but there are also spring admits, sophomores, and some juniors who made up those 936. Just wanted to make that super clear.

[Football Fan]

kaeb,
We are both Trojans here. I realize the number last year included sophomores, spring admits and some juniors. For SC it was still a record number of pnms.

The last number I was given was 566. That is why I did not see the eventual number making 900. On the board where I volunteer costs appear to be a challenge for many potential Greeks.

[kaeb]

I know you know, but when I read it, I thought to myself, wow! I didn't know 2/3 of the freshmen girls went through formal! And then I realized that there are others. So it's just to clarify for myself as much as anyone else.

I'm surprised it's that low! That's obviously much lower than they were expecting back in the spring. Huh.

I also don't know why they decided to raise recruitment fees for the PNMs.

Is 566 the current number or the projected final number? I wouldn't be surprised if the current number spikes this week as freshmen start moving in and realizing that many of their new friends will be going through recruitment. That seemed to happen with a fair number of girls I met last year.