University of Southern California Recruitment

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by KDCat

Maybe they were allowed to take quota and not one person more. Sometimes a lower number means that the group is more desirable, not less.

Here's my understanding of what happens sometimes with the "most desirable" houses under RFM:

Because the "most desirable" chapters have a high return rate, they have to make deeper cuts much earlier than other groups. They have fewer people that they can invite to their invitationals and to pref. Because fewer people attend their pref, they don't get many of the "extra" PNMs who attended pref somewhere but failed to match on the first go round, but who are matched to one of their pref houses because RFM guarantees them a bid if they maximize their options. "Less desirable" houses can invite more women to pref and thus, they can pick up more of the "extra" PNMs.

Somebody correct this if it's wrong.

You are correct. Even if there were women who were at DG's pref and didn't match, the GA could have placed them as quota additions in the weaker recruiting chapters instead.

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

You are correct. Even if there were women who were at DG's pref and didn't match, the GA could have placed them as quota additions in the weaker recruiting chapters instead.

This only works if the PNM picked the other chapter as her first choice and NOT if DG did not made quota and the girl would be a QA to the other chapter.

Also - to clarify - a chapter that gets quota additions is NOT less desirable nor is a PNM that is a QA less desirable. A PNM is made a QA if she does not match in the top of the bid list for her pref chapters. It is done so that every woman invited to prefs will get a bid.

A chapter that gets QAs did better than statisically expected based on the number of women they were allowed to invite. The QA usually goes to the smaller of the two chapters but that is the decision of the GA. If both chapters are the same size or two chapters are going to get a lot of QAs the GA might spread them out.