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TSwift

<strong>Subject:</strong><br />you need to calm down<br /><br /> Poster Message:
I posted this as a response to another post but thought it might be a good thread. Look, a lot of chapters miss quota by 1 or 2 because of the release figures. When chapters have to cut half of the girls there between rounds, it's hard. You might cut women who really wanted to be in your chapter while keeping ones who ranked you lower. When it comes to pref and quota is 56, the chapters who recruit well/strong (this is as statistical analysis, not a value judgement) may only be able to invite 120 women at preference which doesn't leave them much breathing room when PNMs go to two parties. This is what happens to Alpha Phi, they are only able to invite like 2.25 times quota to pref. If more girls than expected pref the other chapter, then they don't make quota. It has happened to them for the last three years. It doesn't make them a bad chapter, it just makes it harder for them to match to quota without snap bids. It happens to a lot of chapters. It very well could have happened at AXO, too. Numbers are tricky and not necessarily indicative of popular opinion, they just fall they way they do. A chapter can also miss quota when girls drop out of recruitment after the pref parties or suicide one chapter. If a girl has two chapters one she likes and one she doesn't want, if she gets the feeling that the one she likes isn't interested her and she might get "stuck" in the other chapter, she lists one. Then if she doesn't match with the chapter she likes, the other chapter loses a potential member. This is very likely what happened at TPA who missed quota by a couple or DPhiE or ASA. The way recruitment works can be confusing if you haven't been exposed to the logistics of how it works. SO there is a lot of room for misunderstanding. Sometimes a good chapter misses quota. Sometimes a good chapter is a casualty of the math. Sometimes a good chapter just wants more members because they have sisters going abroad in the fall and want the house to be full or they realize they need a bike team member and did't find one during recruitment. There all kinds of reasons so many chapters who made quota are doing informal by invitation only. Maybe it's nothing more than good financial sense. Who knows? But like I always say, "you need to calm down!"