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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
2) If a chapter has historically done very well, they get few invites for pref. Let's say that quota is estimated at 50, and for the last three years, every girl attending prefs at ABC put them first on their bid card. ABC may only get to invite just over 50 girls to pref. This is one of the big changes that RFM made: looking at how chapters were ultimately ranked on bid cards to help determine pref invites. ABC just barely taking quota doesn't mean that they didn't recruit as well as other chapters, it could just mean that they didn't recruit as well as in previous years.
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Couldn't that mean that ABC did extremely well at recruiting over the past few years, and that they only got to invite (let's say) 55 women for prefs? Even if all 55 of those women put them first and are matched/quota added to their chapter, they still won't end up with more than 55 from quota additions because they aren't on anyone else's bid card, because they were only allowed to invite back those 55 for prefs. Other chapters who were permitted more pref invites because their return rates weren't quite as high might end up with more QAs because there is a bigger pool of women who attended their pref party and then ranked them on their bid cards, and therefore those chapters would have larger pledge classes overall.
Crazy run-on sentences, but I can't figure out a way to phrase it better. Best return rates -> limited # of pref invites -> limited opportunity for quota additions -> smaller (but still quota or quota +) pledge class?
ETA: Which could also explain why quota seems to be low. If they are limiting pref invites for the chapters with the best return rates, Panhellenic/the RFM software must be 'forecasting' quota to some degree. If ABC is only permitted to invite 55 women for prefs, with the expectation that quota will be around 50, and then it turns out that more women sign bid cards than they anticipated (say no one drops out after prefs), they would be penalizing ABC by making quota 60, since ABC was only permitted to invite back 55 women for prefs. ABC will automatically not be able to make quota, even though their # of prefs invites was limited in the first place because their return rates were so strong.
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