Potential improvements to invite matching?

[AUAZD2001]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

1) If a chapter's total number of women returning is not enough to fill up the number of parties - 1, they only hold the number - 1. In the above example, if you had fewer than 80 attending, you would only hold 4 parties instead of 5. This helps the parties look fuller, and gives the chapter a break.

I think this could be good. Only panhellenic and the chapter would know how many parties they were hosting. The PNMs wouldn't know. The parties would be full and the chapters would only be looking at PNMs they were interested in.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by AUAZD2001

I think this could be good. Only panhellenic and the chapter would know how many parties they were hosting. The PNMs wouldn't know. The parties would be full and the chapters would only be looking at PNMs they were interested in.

Are you all going to be able to do it this year at Auburn with the extra parties you built into the schedule? It seems like it makes it easier to vary and not make it obvious to the PNMs since all chapters will have at least some off parties, right?

[violetpretty]

Do PNMs notice party size and come to the conclusion that a smaller party = less desirable chapter? If anything, I would think that PNMs might notice a smaller chapter size and conclude that the chapter is less desirable. We all know that tent talk happens. If ABC is the "top" chapter on campus, they will have smaller parties because they will have to release more women with the RFM. Tent talk will sway PNMs more that party size will.

I was pretty oblivious to the number of sisters in each chapter during recruitment and the party size. If party size appears to be an issue, condensing the parties for certain chapters may be a good idea.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Do PNMs notice party size and come to the conclusion that a smaller party = less desirable chapter? If anything, I would think that PNMs might notice a smaller chapter size and conclude that the chapter is less desirable. We all know that tent talk happens. If ABC is the "top" chapter on campus, they will have smaller parties because they will have to release more women with the RFM. Tent talk will sway PNMs more that party size will.

I think you are misunderstanding the RFM. The idea is not to make the top chapters have fewer women at their parties, it is to make them release more women because the women they do keep are more likely to show up.

I think there are PNM's who would assume fewer PNM's = less desirable chapter.