Indiana University - NPC predictions

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by redrubies

A lot of women decide to drop out of the process if they don't get their desired houses, the desired houses tend to be the most exclusive with smaller pledge classes.

Also, the only reason the unhoused chapters seem successful and have similar sized chapters it is because most do informal fall and spring recruitment. The retention rate for unhoused chapters isn't very high.

If a chapter has at or close to the size of other chapters, it *is* a successful chapters. Not all chapters are strong in formal recruitment, that doesn't mean they aren't good, strong chapters.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by KDCat

If a chapter has at or close to the size of other chapters, it *is* a successful chapters. Not all chapters are strong in formal recruitment, that doesn't mean they aren't good, strong chapters.

Exactly. Just looking at the Facebook pages for some of these newer, unhoused chapters, the only thing they SEEM to be is happy, growing groups.

Participating in informal recruitment doesn't make these chapters any less successful than the ones that only do formal. How you even compare these things at a campus like IU, I don't know. Their quotas are all different. So let's say Sorority A (housed) sets their quota at 40, and Sorority B (unhoused) sets their quota at 65. Each makes quota. Then Sorority B has 15 new members drop. Which sorority is more successful? And what if Sorority B gains 15 more new members through informal recruitment, all of whom end up staying? Which sorority is more successful then?

And let's face it - there are at least a few girls who are dropping these chapters simply because they don't have a house. Does that mean that a chapter isn't successful simply because they don't currently have a place to live together?

Until we hear about a chapter truly struggling to gain and keep new members, I wouldn't consider any of them to be "unsuccessful".