Bama Sorority Recruitment 2010

[amanda6035]

Okay - I seriously don't get this. According to the NPC results thread, quota was 83+5. How is it that SO MANY chapters got quota plus to the point that the plus was 20 or more? and not just one chapter was like that - there are many. Um....RFM?

I thought I finally understood how this worked, but now I'm baffled.

[mikewozowski]

me too!

what is RFM?

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by amanda6035

Okay - I seriously don't get this. According to the NPC results thread, quota was 83+5. How is it that SO MANY chapters got quota plus to the point that the plus was 20 or more? and not just one chapter was like that - there are many. Um....RFM?

I thought I finally understood how this worked, but now I'm baffled.

Originally Posted by mikewozowski

me too!

what is RFM?

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...hlight=Release

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...uota+additions



I think the high numbers of QAs means that UA is working to place as many PNMs who maximize their options. Remember, everyone who does is eligible to be matched as a QA.

[amanda6035]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

I think the high numbers of QAs means that UA is working to place as many PNMs who maximize their options. Remember, everyone who does is eligible to be matched as a QA.

I guess I don't understand why there are still so many that "have" to be placed because they maximized their options IF RFM is working as it should. If there are that many PNMs being invited back to multiple preference parties and multiple chapters hit quota before all of them are placed, then it sounds like those chapters invited too many PNMs to preference....

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by bamamom14

Have your daughter visit any friends she has at Bama now -during her Senior year of HS. My daughter visited 2 different friends in the fall & spring. She met girls in her friends' sorority and also in several other sororities. I would also encourage you to attend Greek Preview Wknd in the spring. There will be teas, parties, etc for future PNMs during that weekend. My daughter was invited to many of those as well - again a result of girls having met her when she visited her friends.

All true, but you have to be INVITED to visit the houses and you have to be INVITED to these teas and parties during the preview weekend.
Not everybody gets invited.
Frankly, I wouldn't have let my daughter spend a weekend...a day, maybe, but no overnight visits.
Hey...I may be old, but I was a student, too, once. And I know what goes on. Not that your or my student ever did anything naughty.

[AnchorAlumna]

Bama's rush is biggest in the nation (so far, anyway): http://www.cw.ua.edu/2010/08/17/ua-h...ush-in-nation/

[UofISigKap]

The intent of RFM is to help maintain a balance in member numbers between chapters, promote realistic placements, but not to cut down on the number of total women placed, right?

My take on Bama are there are SO MANY women going through that it's either cut even heavier and have more women released completely (making it more challenging to become greek there) or just keep absorbing the huge new member classes and place as many women as possible. If I was a PNM, I would so much rather be one of the 20+ who was added on instead of cut completely. Good thing Bama is bringing in DG!

[kchaptergphib]

I was looking through the rest of the Bama New Member lists, and, bless her Yankee heart, I spotted a girl from my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin (she went Phi Mu)!
Congrats to all!

[Nanners52674]

I thought that the extra members were because campus Panhellenic raised total due to DG colonizing in Fall 2011 and houses were then able to bid up to total?

[aopirose]

Originally Posted by Nanners52674

I thought that the extra members were because campus Panhellenic raised total due to DG colonizing in Fall 2011 and houses were then able to bid up to total?

Me too. I thought that Chapter Total was set at Average Chapter Size which was a 43 member increase over the previous year. (225 to 268) I assumed that Panhellenic decided to use FR as away to help chapters get to 268. There was already an available pool of PNMs. Adding 43 or more outside of FR is a daunting task anyway. Been there, done that, it ain't no fun.

[Titchou]

OK, the +5 was not the quota addition number. Freshman quota was 83 and upperclass quota was 5 which is stated as 83 + 5 for a total of 88.

Now, the reason some groups received more quota additions is that quota is based on the number that will place the most women and have the most chapters make quota (freshman quota). The computer program runs several options and settles on one. So it may be that one group would only pledge quota and the remaining groups would get quota additions.

[bamamom14]

AnchorAlumna - you are correct - you must be invited to the Houses & the Parties. When my daughter visited last year she stayed with girls she was friends with & had gone to HS with. Yes, I'm sure she prob did some things I wouldn't want to know about but I also had to trust that she would make the right decisions. I know for a fact that she was invited to several parties & teas in the Spring as a result of the girls she knew from HS or new girls she had met when she visited Bama. As for the House invites during Rush - I don't know for sure that her prior visits were why she was invited back but I have to think that played a part in it.

[bamamama14]

My daughter was from out of state and only invited to one spring event. The only reason she was invited was because she was a legacy (deceased grandmother) , and an alumna sent a legacy form in her behalf.

My D had a great, near perfect rush without knowing anyone. But she was very prepared with 2-3 recs per house, great grades, EC's and the ability to meet and greet. It can be done, but it takes A LOT of preparation. We started in early spring looking form alumns, as we are from a small town and do not have a local Panhellenic.
Good luck to next year's PNMs.

[33girl]

EC's?

[bamamama14]

ECs = Extracurriculars