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Originally Posted by victoriana
I know my school's recruitment is super weird! In some ways, it works for us and in other ways it's just so terrible. To answer some of your questions...
Have we ever thought about making recruitment fully structured? Yes! We are under a lot of pressure from many chapters' national organizations and the local alumnae Panhellenic. We can't do anything about it for this recruitment, but discussion and voting on the issue is expected to happen before Fall 2013 recruitment. I know a lot of people are against doing a fully-RFM style recruitment because of certain aspects that would hurt us. Their argument is that the big chapters would get even bigger and that the smaller chapters would struggle even more. There are also people that are for the system (like me). I think that by forcing PNMs to visit all chapters they were invited to and banning them from attending chapters they weren't invited to, we would have a higher placement rate. It would prevent Patty PNM from having her heart set on XYZ and ignoring all the other groups and then winding up bidless. Like I said, this is a situation in progress. I really hope we at least implement some of the aspects of RFM fully structured recruitment.
Freshmen can and do rush. I'd say at least half the PNM pool is freshmen. They have no knowledge of COB, we keep it a secret until after structured recruitment. Groups COB after structured recruitment in the fall if they want more new members and all groups COB in the winter.
The time limits are definitely strange. They can't take anything out of the room, but they could spend up to the entire 3 hour recruitment block in one room if they really wanted to without visiting any of the other sororities. We invite girls back for house rounds to narrow our list down for preference so we can focus on PNMs we are interested in. For PNMs, it serves as a gauge of how much a chapter is interested in them. Some girls see it as if they don't get an invite back for house rounds, they shouldn't waste their time. If you don't get invited to house rounds, you won't get invited to preference (you can, but I've never seen it).
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It sounds like there are two separate issues being conflated: 1) moving to more structure and 2) allowing every group to take quota when some are already larger than others. The second one sounds like some kind of growing pains...I'd think there would be some way to handle this in the first few years to make it work out, e.g. uneven quotas or something of that sort.
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