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Originally Posted by AZ-AlphaXi
When RFM was instituted it was felt that by restricting the number of invitations that could be given by the more successfully recruiting chapters would ultimately result in those chapters having attendance at their pref parties and thus on their bid lists in numbers that would lead to fewer QA for those chapters.
In campuses that use RFM (with the exception of some in the south), I've mostly observed this to be true. That the large QAs seem to go to smaller chapters.
By lifting the QA restriction, it was felt, that there would be a better chance to place every woman who played by the rules and attended all possible events.
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The problem, as I see it, is that there seem to be huge numbers of QA's at the same time there are chapters not making quota. I am really torn on this, because I don't want women to go bidless, but on the other hand, it really hurts the smaller chapters.
I also don't know if there have been changes to the RFM over the years. As I understood it, back when I was in school the formula was:
invitations = (number of women still in recruitment/number of chapters) *(number of parties in the round/average return rate of the last three years)
So, if there were 500 women going to pref, and each woman could attend two prefs, and ten chapters, a chapter with a 100% return rate could issue 150 pref invitations, and a chapter with a 50% return rate could issue 300 invitations.
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