UT Knoxville Recruitment 2010

[volalum]

just talked to an active- they still dont know what quota is! hang in there you all!

[marigold]

Originally Posted by volalum

just talked to an active- they still dont know what quota is! hang in there you all!

Hey y'all, quota is 35+4 upperclassmen

[AoPiMommy]

WOW, that seems awfully low considering how many PNMs there were, doesn't it? I find the formulas way too complicated to understand --- it IS like rocket science. Hehe

[AnchorAlumna]

It is indeed quite low, especially for Tennessee. There may have been higher-than-normal dropouts.
Sounds like Panhellenic needs to do a better job "selling" sororities and recruitment.

[AoPiMommy]

Originally Posted by vol_mom

These UT pnm's had to wait allll day and then only got half of their invite list! (Philanthropy and Skits were divided over two days). Again, just my opinion.

I concur with this assessment. There is already a ton of stress and anxiety associated with the first week of school, being away from home (in some cases), etc. Ah, well. Patience is a virtue, I suppose

[FSUZeta]

good luck to ladybug daughter and vol daughter too!! can't wait to hear all about it tomorrow!

[AoPiMommy]

Typically, when do they determine quota? Or rather, when do they find out what it is?

[AGDee]

Originally Posted by AoPiMommy

Typically, when do they determine quota? Or rather, when do they find out what it is?

If they are using release figures, then there is probably a quota range set. The numbers are crunched using several numbers as quota and the outcome that gets the most PNMs placed and the most chapters hitting quota is used. It's far more complex than the old days of hand bid matching, but much faster too.

[AoPiMommy]

Thank you, AGDee.....good to know. I honestly think I am more anxious about her recruitment than I was about my own!!!

[HappyKappaMom]

I would think the economy is a factor in the lower number of pnms.

But then my daughter said UofSC is actually at an all time high. Over 1100.

[AnchorAlumna]

Yes, many universities are reported record-breaking recruitment numbers. However...many of Alabama's new members are from Tennessee (and Texas, and California).

[UTKALUM]

Just heard from my chapter. Bid lists are in hand.

[DubaiSis]

I think some campuses are really doing well with RFM and some are really struggling. Maybe this is what happened here. A lot of girls got cut from "everyone's favorites" so they just dropped instead of considering the chapters they had left. At Iowa last year 50% of the girls dropped out! Quota ended up an astonishingly low 23 when it should have been in the range of 35 or 40. At Iowa they instituted some big changes. We'll see if it works. Then I guess UT can decide if they need to do the same thing. If you could just tell the girls ... (blah blah blah, we've all discussed it a million times here).

[ladybug84]

Just talked to my daughter...said she's heading over in about 10 minutes to the panhellenic building. I didn't know what to say to her other than I love her and to let me know when she finds out. I got up early for church this morning and was able to snooze for about an hour - and that's been the most peaceful hour of the day thus far. Seeing that quota is as low as it is doesn't help.

[MUSK81]

A boy from our parish is rushing Pi Kappa Phi at UTK. Fraternity rush is sooo different from when I was in school, when it was basically open parties. We're meeting his parents for drinks this evening so we'll see how it's going.