NPC Recruitment & Chapter Listing: Fall 2015-Spring 2016

[ComradesTrue]

Observation, without trying to call out any specific chapter on any specific campus:

For years it seemed that RFM was doing its job of creating somewhat equality with quota numbers. This year, more than any year I can remember in the RFM era, seems to have some chapters missing quota by a lot. As in, they are taking about 25% of quota.

This occurred last fall on a few campuses and scrolling through recent postings it continues to happen.

What accounts for this? The only thing I can think of is the "other" website where people rank and post vile comments about perceived bottom chapters. Are they getting regular pref parties but more people are not listing them on their bid cards because of tent talk that has now moved online?

Does anyone have other ideas? It wouldn't make sense that RFM is this broken this many years in. These numbers remind me of my days pre-RFM. We had a chapter on campus that would only get about 1/4-1/2 the size of the other chapters and it closed while I was there.

[DubaiSis]

I think there are 2 possible reasons for that. 1 is there are so many brand new chapters and they are growing slowly. At least in the case of a few chapters I can think of they are not doing the numbers the more established chapters on campus are doing, but they are growing slowly and with intention. We all know the success rate of taking any warm body for the long term success of a chapter.
And 2-I think they've tightened up RFM so much that a strong chapter just has to be off a little bit and their numbers can be ruined, although I wouldn't expect it to be 25% of the others, but maybe more like 25% less. In those cases it doesn't reflect in the immediate numbers but they're probably right back on par within a few weeks.
Oh, and a 3-you may be seeing numbers that you traditionally don't see. A lot of sororities don't want to share bad numbers because of PR. But they can get out anyway! I'd rather see them so we can see positive change over time. But I'm a geek that way and not an 18 year old girl freaked out about joining "that house."