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[Kansas City]

5-4-3-2(pref).

On a slight swerve I've got a question, Greek Life is toying with the idea of eliminating one day to have a future three day schedule. The campus has always had four days of recruitment and anywhere from 4-6 sororities over the past 20+ years. Using RFM, would eliminating one day cause the strong returning chapters (who already cut 50-60% following day one) to eliminate even more PNMs after the first day(70-80%)? Or would the cuts become more spread out (maybe 40% following day one and 40% following day two)? I fear that by eliminating one day of a four-day schedule, recruitment becomes more stressful and competitive for both the chapters and the PNMs. Any thoughts?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Kansas City

5-4-3-2(pref).

On a slight swerve I've got a question, Greek Life is toying with the idea of eliminating one day to have a future three day schedule. The campus has always had four days of recruitment and anywhere from 4-6 sororities over the past 20+ years. Using RFM, would eliminating one day cause the strong returning chapters (who already cut 50-60% following day one) to eliminate even more PNMs after the first day(70-80%)? Or would the cuts become more spread out (maybe 40% following day one and 40% following day two)? I fear that by eliminating one day of a four-day schedule, recruitment becomes more stressful and competitive for both the chapters and the PNMs. Any thoughts?

Four days is tight enough, let alone three. V. v. bad plan.

[AXOrushadvisor]

Originally Posted by Kansas City

5-4-3-2(pref).

On a slight swerve I've got a question, Greek Life is toying with the idea of eliminating one day to have a future three day schedule. The campus has always had four days of recruitment and anywhere from 4-6 sororities over the past 20+ years. Using RFM, would eliminating one day cause the strong returning chapters (who already cut 50-60% following day one) to eliminate even more PNMs after the first day(70-80%)? Or would the cuts become more spread out (maybe 40% following day one and 40% following day two)? I fear that by eliminating one day of a four-day schedule, recruitment becomes more stressful and competitive for both the chapters and the PNMs. Any thoughts?

KC, I think it is doable. I'm not sure it would have an impact on the RFM's because your strong Chapters would still need to cut based on past results (first day of recruitment is first day no matter how many parties you have). To me it seems like it might make it all around easier until there are more groups on campus. It seems kind of weird to only eliminate 1 group after each round. I would be open to the plan.

[gatordeltapgh]

Originally Posted by Kansas City

5-4-3-2(pref).

On a slight swerve I've got a question, Greek Life is toying with the idea of eliminating one day to have a future three day schedule. The campus has always had four days of recruitment and anywhere from 4-6 sororities over the past 20+ years. Using RFM, would eliminating one day cause the strong returning chapters (who already cut 50-60% following day one) to eliminate even more PNMs after the first day(70-80%)? Or would the cuts become more spread out (maybe 40% following day one and 40% following day two)? I fear that by eliminating one day of a four-day schedule, recruitment becomes more stressful and competitive for both the chapters and the PNMs. Any thoughts?

I would follow the advice of your RFM Specialists and your NPC Area Advisors. If the RFM Specialties that works with your campus is recommending going from 5 days to 4 days, there is a reason. Your Fraternity/Sorority Advisor and Panhellenic should know this reason so ask.

A campus I work with has the same schedule as the one you described and it was recommended that they not go down to four days. The answer is all the numbers and RFM works. Your NPC Delegates would also be involved in that conversation so you can go to them and their team for guidance.

Good luck!

[DartmouthPanhel]

Originally Posted by Kansas City

5-4-3-2(pref).

On a slight swerve I've got a question, Greek Life is toying with the idea of eliminating one day to have a future three day schedule. The campus has always had four days of recruitment and anywhere from 4-6 sororities over the past 20+ years. Using RFM, would eliminating one day cause the strong returning chapters (who already cut 50-60% following day one) to eliminate even more PNMs after the first day(70-80%)? Or would the cuts become more spread out (maybe 40% following day one and 40% following day two)? I fear that by eliminating one day of a four-day schedule, recruitment becomes more stressful and competitive for both the chapters and the PNMs. Any thoughts?

At Dartmouth, we have 3 rounds (although often the rounds are split into two days for scheduling purposes). Last year we had 7 sororities, and we have 8 now.

We did 7-4-2 last year and it worked well. I think it might be difficult to pull of with 8 sororities, but 3 rounds worked just fine for 7 groups. Cutting down a day/round will increase the cuts for high-performing sororities, but it shouldn't double them.

RFM recommendation for 5 sororities is a three day/round process, I believe 5-3-2.

Plus, I wholeheartedly advocate shortening the rush process. It's so stressful/time-consuming for both members and PNMs (not to mention expensive), and generally the result will be the same even with a shortened process (the beauty of RFM).