RFM question

[Ace23]

Thank you for the replies. Today is preference and my daughter received invitations from her top two houses all week which includes her legacy house. Since my sorority does place legacies at the top of their bid list it makes for an easy night. Once it is official, I will let you know where she went.

[NYCMS]

Originally Posted by Ace23

Thank you for the replies. Today is preference and my daughter received invitations from her top two houses all week which includes her legacy house. Since my sorority does place legacies at the top of their bid list it makes for an easy night. Once it is official, I will let you know where she went.

Very best to her! I'm an alumnae of the Gamma Phi chapter there and have such wonderful memories of my entire rush, especially pref night which was magical. So many great chapters, one of my Gamma Phi sisters has daughters in a house there now, so I'm a bit more up to date on sorority life at Arizona than I used to be (I pledged in the late 70's).

[AnchorAlumna]

On our Facebook pages for parents with daughter going through sorority recruitment, we've had a LOT of parents this year wanting to crunch numbers. Some of them get kind of put out with the admins for not giving them the material to work with, but honestly we don't have enough data, detailed or accurate enough, to do it with any meaning.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

On our Facebook pages for parents with daughter going through sorority recruitment, we've had a LOT of parents this year wanting to crunch numbers. Some of them get kind of put out with the admins for not giving them the material to work with, but honestly we don't have enough data, detailed or accurate enough, to do it with any meaning.

YES. You literally need the return rates, quota numbers for each chapter, total for each year, and a few others numbers that tread into members only territory really, for at least the last 4 or 5 years to do it with any degree of success. I can't imagine any parent even trying it.

[zbxo]

Oh I’m glad your daughter has had a good recruitment at the U of A. I couldn’t reply to this or the other thread as I’m still involved with my chapter. All of the chapters at Arizona are strong chapters with amazing members. RFM uses a range of years of returns to determine how many will be invited back to the next round. You really have to be involved with recruitment for a while just to understand it. Congratulations to your daughter!

[Sororitysock]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

YES. You literally need the return rates, quota numbers for each chapter, total for each year, and a few others numbers that tread into members only territory really, for at least the last 4 or 5 years to do it with any degree of success. I can't imagine any parent even trying it.

But even if you were privy to each sorority's return rates, it wouldn't help because each PNM is different and how she fits with the various desired qualities of each sorority is different. So even if you knew ABC can carry 75% of PNMs over from round three to preference, you wouldn't know how Precious measures up to those that are in that 75%. Although a percentage is quantitative, what puts the women in that percentage is qualitative. So Precious doesn't have a 75% chance of getting asked back, but many people don't seem to comprehend that.

[Ace23]

My daughter found her home at Pi Beta Phi

[carnation]

YAYY! Ring ching!

[Sororitysock]

Originally Posted by Ace23

Thank you for the replies. Today is preference and my daughter received invitations from her top two houses all week which includes her legacy house. Since my sorority does place legacies at the top of their bid list it makes for an easy night. Once it is official, I will let you know where she went.

How wonderful and exciting for both of you! Glad you both survived this week!