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Originally Posted by carnation
There is something else that RFM changed abut ISP. I will be blunt.
Before RFM, many "selective" campuses had many large sororities, many medium ones, and a couple of really small ones that were known as "those" groups. Lots of PNMs, especially after tent talk, did not want to be seen at their parties or in their letters. Setting quota after first or second parties made this far worse.
Let's say a campus had 510 PNMs and 10 groups and quota was set after first parties after 10 girls dropped out; it would be 500/10=50. But--back then, the big cuts of PNMs came much later in recruitment. Therefore, a system might end up with 400 after prefs but quota was still 50 and the more "desirable" groups would've ended up filling up first, leaving very few PNMs for the smaller groups. (Let's say that 5 groups were the really desired ones, so 250 girls go to those groups, leaving 150 to be fought over by the other 5.) Not to mention that huge numbers of women had already cut the smaller groups because back then you could cut as many sororities as you wanted early on, so that many of the 150 had already cut the "less desirable" ones. Students would look at these much smaller pledge classes and surmise that they must stink to be so small and the cycle was repeated year after year.
Nowadays at those campuses, primarily because of RFM or whatever the best term is, there's a much more level playing field. Sometimes all the groups make quota (they may lose a lot of new members but that's another story). There are many more women who are open to pledging any of the groups, often because they've been released by so many in early stages. Many women do have to decide if they'll go XYZ or not be Greek.
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I also wonder if heavier cuts earlier in the process put women more in a "choose for themselves" mindframe. I remember when I got my really harsh round of cuts (second invitational), it still seemed like EVERYONE I was talking to on my dorm floor was still going to all the same chapters without me. In the end, almost none of them pledged together, but it sure felt like that was what was about to happen.
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