Georgia Recruitment

[UGAalum94]

I'm excited to hear about the new Alpha Gams! I bet the chapter is thrilled. I was also delighted by the recruitment thread and I'm happy for the poster and Delta Gamma. It sounds like a great experience overall.

As far as why, and this is only my speculation since I sincerely know nothing about it: could it have something to do with average chapter size vs. total?

If the earlier post about total being 170 was right but many/most chapters have closer to 200, the "smaller"* chapters still need a way of catching up. With all but two chapters being above total, they probably wanted a way to place more girls, but for some reason they were hesitant to raise total.

It also seems to me that having more groups participate may make informal recruitment more successful overall and draw more PNMs to participate. It'd be interesting to know if the groups below total recruited as well or better this year compared to years when there wasn't a structured informal with other groups participating.

In my opinion, the groups that participated are comparable draws, so it seems unlikely that girls would only participate with their hopes on one.

*(how can we describe any chapter of 120+ as small, really, and I think all of them at UGA are that big?)

ETA: I see that I read over AGDee's post in which she noted average chapter size as a potential reason. Duh, sorry for my repetitive statement of what she had already noted.