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[LAblondeGPhi]

Originally Posted by UNCalum

I was curious about chapter numbers, and looked at the Spring 2014 grade report. This chapter had anywhere from 40 - 70 fewer members than the other houses. The average size is about 170. This was also before the Senior class graduated. Hopefully today (Round Two) will be more manageable for them with fewer girls attending parties. (I assume there are fewer girls....my daughter has 8 parties but there were 10 time slots to accommodate everyone.) I'm not quite sure how it works..

One of the few drawbacks of RFM for small chapters is that the smaller/weaker chapters often have far more PNMs in their invitational rounds than the strong recruiting chapters.

The strong chapters know that they'll have a majority of PNMs choose to return for subsequent rounds, so they might only need to have a total of 80 PNMs in their first invitational round, where the smaller chapter may need 120 in order for both chapters to hit quota of 20 on bid day. This really exacerbates the problem.

Originally Posted by Griffins&Quills

Chapters usually have more time slots than the number of parties so that the number of PNMs at each party is less, and therefore more manageable

The extra parties really have the ability to help out, but it seems that usually this is geared to making party sizes more manageable for all of the chapters, with no special consideration for a small chapter. What smaller chapters need is often a couple of extra parties that the rest of the chapters don't have (i.e. - 15 party time slots for PNMs to visit a max of 8 chapters, strong chapters use 12 time slots with 3 breaks, smaller chapters use all 15). Do any campuses do that?