Hopeful... but worried

[DubaiSis]

You should find lots of information here about RFM (Release Figures Method, if I'm not mistaken) that explains, sort of, how girls are cut and/or invited back. Numerically, of course, not based on qualifications. I can't tell you for sure your campus uses this system, but it's becoming very popular across the country, so hopefully it is.

If only 250 girls are going through this year, quota would be well below mid-30's. If 70% of girls who start finish and join a house, I think that's a pretty good year, or quota in the range of 15-20.

I'll give you the one example I can describe with any clarity. At the University of Iowa, something like 750 girls went through 14 sororities, quota was 34 and all but one chapter made quota. So that means approximately 470 girls were placed. They do have a larger drop out rate than similar-sized Greek systems, but this might give you a ballpark of what to expect.

However, a bunch of the nearly 300 girls who dropped still had at least one house available to them at the time they quit. One of the problems Iowa has is lack of parity (the houses have widely differing numbers of members) so a lot of those girls dropped out as soon as the big 3 (which by the way were not the same big 3 when I went there!) cut them. So if they'd have been more open-minded, this particular scenario could have easily been 40+ quota.

Don't focus on this too much. Work on your conversation skills as this (after acceptable grades) is I think the most important criterion for acceptance. A good conversationalist will beat out a lot of other more shallow qualifications in almost every case. And I don't want to hear you're shy! I'm so over hearing that this year. You maybe USED to be shy, but now you are a sorority girl (in waiting) and it's time to be open and bubbly. Fake it if you have to.

My other big piece of advice is quit looking for the "click" that you have with some houses. Be nice, be fun and be open to new things. Some of the girls you meet are going to be awesome in every way, and some are going to be ghastly, but chances are, you will be meeting an anomaly in both cases. Every house has both. When Betty Best cuts you, suck it up and be happy that you got invited back to Polly Pretty Good and Mary Meh? The Mary's could end up being your favorite down the road.

OK, 2 more pieces of advice. Get all the sleep you can, and drink plenty of water. This is NOT the time to be hitting fraternity parties or pulling all night study sessions.

Good luck and let us know how it's going!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

You should find lots of information here about RFM (Release Figures Method, if I'm not mistaken) that explains, sort of, how girls are cut and/or invited back. Numerically, of course, not based on qualifications. I can't tell you for sure your campus uses this system, but it's becoming very popular across the country, so hopefully it is.

If only 250 girls are going through this year, quota would be well below mid-30's. If 70% of girls who start finish and join a house, I think that's a pretty good year, or quota in the range of 15-20.

I'll give you the one example I can describe with any clarity. At the University of Iowa, something like 750 girls went through 14 sororities, quota was 34 and all but one chapter made quota. So that means approximately 470 girls were placed. They do have a larger drop out rate than similar-sized Greek systems, but this might give you a ballpark of what to expect.

However, a bunch of the nearly 300 girls who dropped still had at least one house available to them at the time they quit. One of the problems Iowa has is lack of parity (the houses have widely differing numbers of members) so a lot of those girls dropped out as soon as the big 3 (which by the way were not the same big 3 when I went there!) cut them. So if they'd have been more open-minded, this particular scenario could have easily been 40+ quota.

Don't focus on this too much. Work on your conversation skills as this (after acceptable grades) is I think the most important criterion for acceptance. A good conversationalist will beat out a lot of other more shallow qualifications in almost every case. And I don't want to hear you're shy! I'm so over hearing that this year. You maybe USED to be shy, but now you are a sorority girl (in waiting) and it's time to be open and bubbly. Fake it if you have to.

My other big piece of advice is quit looking for the "click" that you have with some houses. Be nice, be fun and be open to new things. Some of the girls you meet are going to be awesome in every way, and some are going to be ghastly, but chances are, you will be meeting an anomaly in both cases. Every house has both. When Betty Best cuts you, suck it up and be happy that you got invited back to Polly Pretty Good and Mary Meh? The Mary's could end up being your favorite down the road.

OK, 2 more pieces of advice. Get all the sleep you can, and drink plenty of water. This is NOT the time to be hitting fraternity parties or pulling all night study sessions.

Good luck and let us know how it's going!

PNMs do not need to understand RFM to have a happy recruitment.

Most sorority members don't understand RFM.