After Several Years: What Do You Think of the New Release Figures?

[AXOrushadvisor]

I have stated in this thread earlier that I like RFM and I think for the most part it has done what it was supposed to do. I also agree with the issue of having to cut heavily after a 20 minute round. Chapters release a lot of outstanding women in that first cut because it is all about first impressions when you talk to some one for 5 minutes or less. The last one in isn't always the last one out. I find that the girls who have a really good first round are more the "party" girls who have very good social skills. If you are shy or reserved first round can kill you.

The other part of RFM that I think is misleading is Campuses that don't allow PNM's to suicide (SIP). I might be wrong but it seems that more girls have the scenario with one or two Chapters they love and a second or third they can not see themselves in. Single intentional preference when allowed, I believe, helps not only the girls, but the Chapter. I know of more then one Chapter that makes quota on paper but only has half the New Member class show up. That is a no win for every one involved. Either way the Chapter probably isn't going to make quota and that is a problem.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by AXOrushadvisor

Single intentional preference when allowed, I believe, helps not only the girls, but the Chapter. I know of more then one Chapter that makes quota on paper but only has half the New Member class show up. That is a no win for every one involved. Either way the Chapter probably isn't going to make quota and that is a problem.

This. I keep hearing stories about chapters whose so-called achievement of quota was only on paper as well as those whose pledge class size is cut by half a few weeks later. Panhellenic Councils are shooting themselves in the foot by requiring not only forced pref parties (I started a thread on that years ago) but requiring that PNMs rank all of those pref parties for whatever reward.