NPC Recruitment & Chapter Listing: Fall 2012-Spring 2013

[Football Fan]

Wisconsin Tri Delta

Q 52 DDD 52

[PanseyGirl]

University of Wyoming

Tri Delta has 56 new Pearls! from Facebook

[WCsweet<3]

Willamette University has recruitment January 23-26.

[DeltaEmi88]

Eastern Illinois University's quota this year was 20!

[Gusteau]

George Mason Chi Omega: 36 new members (quota +1)

Irishpipes, in case you missed it, I edited my first post to show Alpha Xi Delta at 35! I'll come back if I hear anything from Alpha Phi or Alpha Omicron Pi!

[lauralaylin]

Originally Posted by Gusteau

George Mason Chi Omega: 36 new members (quota +1)

Irishpipes, in case you missed it, I edited my first post to show Alpha Xi Delta at 35! I'll come back if I hear anything from Alpha Phi or Alpha Omicron Pi!

Alpha Phi got 36.

[Cheerio]

Originally Posted by DeltaEmi88

Eastern Illinois University's quota this year was 20!

Do you know if Panhellenic will be lowering total?

[pbear19]

St. Louis University switched this year to a separate freshman/upperclass quota system. Quota was 49+8. The Gamma Tau chapter of Gamma Phi has 60 new members (49+11)!!

[DeltaEmi88]

Originally Posted by Cheerio

Do you know if Panhellenic will be lowering total?

To be honest, I have no idea if they will, but they really need to. Quota for the past four years has been 32 ('09), 23 ('10), 26 ('11), and 20 ('12). Numbers like that don't really support a total of 95, especially since quota dropped so much from 2009-2010. A lot of the members that joined in 2009 are now graduating, and it's difficult to build numbers up when a chapter graduates 30+ women, but only gets 20 during recruitment the next year. A total of 95 really is too high, I believe.

I haven't heard about any of the other groups' numbers as far as recruitment is concerned, though, so I'd be interested to see if any of the other groups met or exceeded quota, though.

[DubaiSis]

But is informal an integral part of the culture at EIU? If only half of all members go through formal then quota this low relative to total might make sense. If nobody is at total and they really have to struggle to get additional members, then yes, it's time to be realistic.

[DeltaEmi88]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

But is informal an integral part of the culture at EIU? If only half of all members go through formal then quota this low relative to total might make sense. If nobody is at total and they really have to struggle to get additional members, then yes, it's time to be realistic.

I really wouldn't say that informal is a huge deal here, just because a lot of chapters don't have to do it, and those that do tend to really need the additional members. There aren't that many girls that go through informal, and if one chapter's informal is scheduled later than another chapter's, the PNM pool is usually really small because the earlier chapters have given bids to most of the women who go through. A lot of chapters end informal recruitment under total, without full pledge classes, so I would say that there are chapters that do struggle to get those additional members.

I know that during informal last year, my chapter took 14 women and reached total, although it is a HUGE number for informal. We also had several women graduate halfway through the year, so that's why we had the extra spots open, plus spots left open from recruitment in the fall because quota was so low. A lot of chapters are losing more members than they are recruiting, because recruitment numbers had been absolutely huge a few years ago. I don't know what chapter numbers are currently like with all of the new pledge classes, but it seems like very few chapters are going to be at/around total right now.

[lovespink88]

Can you please update the Alpha Xi Delta at Illinois number? I was going purely off of counting in the picture--there was apparently one NM missing. We took 53! Thanks!

[PanseyGirl]

California State University at Northridge

Tri Delta has 52 new Pearls from Facebook!

[AZ-AlphaXi]

New Mexico State - quota was 18

Alpha Xi Delta matched 20 (quota + 2)

[PanseyGirl]

University of Texas

Tri Delta 78 new Pearls