NPC Recruitment & Chapter Listing: Fall 2013-Spring 2014

[lovespink88]

DePaul has 298 PNMs registered for recruitment. I believe registration closes tonight. They are down a TON from last year (408).

Phi Mu is colonizing in the Winter quarter, so I am wondering if that's making an impact already?

Also, chapter total is 88.

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by lovespink88

DePaul has 298 PNMs registered for recruitment. I believe registration closes tonight. They are down a TON from last year (408).

Phi Mu is colonizing in the Winter quarter, so I am wondering if that's making an impact already?

Also, chapter total is 88.

Do you think DePaul went too far with expansion? They have added 4 chapters since 2007 (XO, DG, AP, AXD) and plan to add a 5th this year (PM). The numbers were never huge at DePaul. I can understand wanting chapter sizes to be small, but this just seems like a saturated market.

[lovespink88]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

Do you think DePaul went too far with expansion? They have added 4 chapters since 2007 (XO, DG, AP, AXD) and plan to add a 5th this year (PM). The numbers were never huge at DePaul. I can understand wanting chapter sizes to be small, but this just seems like a saturated market.

If you were to ask me a year ago I would say no. Based on what I heard it was really blowing up the past few years. They had a record size recruitment last year with quota at 36. Alpha Xi took somewhere in the low 50s (I can't remember off the top of my head). And yes, I have heard the rationale is to keep chapter sizes down--several of the chapters were up in the 100s last year.

I am not sure how the next year or so is going to turn out. As of that number I got last night, there were 37% less PNMs this year, a chapter that is struggling numbers wise and a new chapter coming in a quarter that does not have formal recruitment. I will be interested to see how this all turns out!