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Poster Name:
RFM

Poster Message:
In the days before RFM, it used to be that houses didn't have to really make hard cuts until right before pref. Before then they could ask back pretty much whoever they wanted and it was the pnm's who were required to eliminate houses from their schedules. Pnm's would pick up a stack of invitations before each round and then choose which ones to accept and which to drop. This worked out poorly for the pnm's, because the stronger recruiting sororities would ask back large numbers of pnm's just so they looked very popular, even though they never intended to bid a huge chunk of them. Meanwhile, those pnm's had no idea they were being carried through the week by those houses just for fluff, and they were dropping other houses left and right where they were actually wanted and had a good chance of getting a bid. Then the pref round would come and so many of these pnm's picked up empty envelopes with no invitations in them, having been finally cut by the houses that lead them on and being left without any other choices. And this was when Bama was still having three prefs instead of two. It was bad. RFM is so much better because it requires the stronger recruiting chapters to go ahead and make the cuts early that they are pretty much going to make anyway, leaving pnm's with houses that have a real chance with. RFM and Quota Additions have been a game changer for pnm's and so many more get bids now.