Little Chapter, Big Recruitment: Spring 2009

[silverpearls]

I'm not privy to what happened exactly, but I found out that we were actually not allowed to cut any PNMs after 3rd round. With the way our school's Panhellenic and release figures work, I was told it is not our chapter's decision. Trust me, all the other sisters (including our Recruitment chair) are as frustrated as I am and if there was any way to change it, we would. We fought really hard with our Greek Life director and were actually able to release 4 PNMs (instead of the 0 were were supposed to release) that the chapter consistently didn't like and who we felt would take bids if they were given them. Other than that, we invited back everybody who came to 3rd round... including girls we don't like who are only Preffing us and will take bids if they're offered. This means that it's pretty much guaranteed that they're in the chapter.

It's very frustrating and disappointing to see things turn out this way. I really can't express how PO'd my sisters and I are that we cannot cut girls who are a truly bad fit for our chapter. Instead of helping us like they're supposed to, these release figures are hurting us by forcing us to invite back PNMs who will hurt our chapter. I could just scream.

Basically we're thinking that our Formal Recruitment pledge class is going to be very mixed. We do COB starting Monday and bids are given out Friday the 13th (eek!), so that will bring in a lot of girls to add to the class... plus we can cut whomever we want with no restrictions if a PNM is a bad fit. I just found out we do have some amazing girls coming back to Pref, so we'll focus on them... including Lily, Danielle, Tasha, Zoe, Elizabeth, Ashley, Jenny and a lot of others I've really grown to love (assuming they don't drop when they get their schedules tomorrow). Sadly Sasha and two others I loved will not be back.


Does anyone have any insight on this release figures situation? PenguinTrax, is it really true that it should be our decision who to cut? We've been told repeatedly that we can only cut a certain number and no more, so I don't know if it's just our school or what...