Hand Matching vs. Computer Based Systems

[Panhelgirl321]

The sororities only get 50 minutes with the girls total the first weekend, so it's sometimes hard to feel out who would be a good fit for their chapter. They typically invite back the same girls who are very social and are good at conversations. Most people who go through recruitment would have never dreamed of going greek before coming to CWRU. During the second weekend the girls get much more time to talk to the sorority women and the chapters are able to distinguish who would be a good fit for their chapter. There definitely are women who sorority life isn't for them, but luckily many girls are placed in chapters and there is a very high retention rate. Luckily the system we have now works pretty well for us!

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Panhelgirl321

The sororities only get 50 minutes with the girls total the first weekend, so it's sometimes hard to feel out who would be a good fit for their chapter. They typically invite back the same girls who are very social and are good at conversations. Most people who go through recruitment would have never dreamed of going greek before coming to CWRU. During the second weekend the girls get much more time to talk to the sorority women and the chapters are able to distinguish who would be a good fit for their chapter. There definitely are women who sorority life isn't for them, but luckily many girls are placed in chapters and there is a very high retention rate. Luckily the system we have now works pretty well for us!

But your system isn't working. You're having to do extra work to cajole your chapters to accept women back for extra parties. Apparently they are cutting too many women early on in the process and having to reverse those decisions rather than have a pledge class of 2. RFM and computerized bid matching helps because the statistics tell the chapters how many women they should invite back at each round. Yes, they will still all invite back the same women, but they won't cut everyone on the bottom, especially if historically Group XYZ never has those top girls come back to their parties. They don't have to cut many at all, so when 30/50 of the girls they really want turn them down for the next party, they still have invitations going out to 20 other women who they may need to get to know better but they have as back ups because they need a few more women around to make quota. Does this make sense? Group ABC may typically have 45/50 of the girls they like come back to their parties, so they only get to ask 50 girls back instead of 70 girls like XYZ. It gets tailored for each group depending on their historical return trends.

No more having to call people and talk them into inviting back Suzy PNM. Case Western really isn't that unique...you've just made it harder for yourselves.