University of Alabama Fall 2014 NPC Sorority Recruitment

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by HQWest

Yes - and it was not that long ago or far away. Go count closed chapters from just before RFM?

But I don't think those chapters closed because stronger chapters were inviting 5-6x the quota of PNMs to pref and filling rooms with scads of girls they never intended to pledge.

Chapters that closed were probably struggling with numbers even earlier in the week. RFM keeps these chapters on PNM's lists where pre-RFM they may have been dropped earlier-on by PNMs.

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by Hartofsec

But I don't think those chapters closed because stronger chapters were inviting 5-6x the quota of PNMs to pref and filling rooms with scads of girls they never intended to pledge.

Chapters that closed were probably struggling with numbers even earlier in the week. RFM keeps these chapters on PNM's lists where pre-RFM they may have been dropped earlier-on by PNMs.

In the bad old days, PreRFM not as many women dropped out because they still had the chapters they wanted early on. They would still have their top choices to prefs - and just get cross-cut and no bid, leaving the smaller chapter that could not make quota.

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by HQWest

In the bad old days, PreRFM not as many women dropped out because they still had the chapters they wanted early on. They would still have their top choices to prefs - and just get cross-cut and no bid, leaving the smaller chapter that could not make quota.

This was not my experience as either a rushee or an active during bad old days (pre-RFM) at Bama. Strong chapters did not invite a throng of girls to pref that they had no interest in, as they had plenty to fill their living rooms who they were interested in pledging. And since so many PNMs think they want the same strong chapters as their "top choices," it would have been impossible for all these PNMs to be accommodated by a handful of chapters throughout the week and through pref. Girls were released from strong chapters every single night.

Perhaps we are referring to different bad old days -- which bad old days were you there when this was a common practice?

This sounds a lot like tent-talk folklore, since the available stats prior to implementation of RFM at Bama (2005) do not support your statements (see especially "Matched to First Choice" and "Not Receiving Bids" rows, pre-RFM years 2001-2004, compared to post RFM years 2005-2011) here.