Potential improvements to invite matching?

[UGAalum94]

They both look good to me but I don't have any direct experience with it like you do.

About the second option, is it better from the PNM perspective than in the old days of no release figures because it would only invite "extra" girls if the chapter would be aware that they actually needed to look at giving them bids?

(Remember that one of the benefits of release figures was to keep groups from stringing girls along until right before pref? If everybody gets a back up list for parties, what's to keep it from being about stringing people along?)

I think they are good suggestions, but I wonder if the problem could be solved somewhat by simply changing the release rate for the next event at that chapter? Does it not work that way?

[violetpretty]

The only time where it is actually a problem that your return rates are lower is for bid day. I understand that return rates will fluctuate a little from year to year, but I think something catastrophic would have to happen to lower them to the point where it would make it very difficult for an otherwise healthy chapter to make quota, even if they have to snap bid a few women.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

I think they are good suggestions, but I wonder if the problem could be solved somewhat by simply changing the release rate for the next event at that chapter? Does it not work that way?

I think, in some situations, having really empty parties could be killer. Also, if you up the number of invites for the next party, it is possible that you could be inviting a woman to the next round who did not attend this one. That can also be killer.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

I think, in some situations, having really empty parties could be killer. Also, if you up the number of invites for the next party, it is possible that you could be inviting a woman to the next round who did not attend this one. That can also be killer.

I see what you mean.

I kind of forgot about systems with a smaller number of groups. I'm used to systems where the drop off between the 2nd to last round and pref cuts the number of parties a girl can go to in half.

At a campus like that, you could just not release many and have almost double the girls you would need. (Assuming of course that you'd really want to pref them and that the smaller party size the round before didn't turn most of them off.)

But at a campus where there are only four groups to begin with and a PNM is cutting from three to two or something before pref, there's no way to make up the numbers really.