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Poster Name:
anchorsaway

Poster Message:
To anchorsaway. I liked your post alot as I think it asked many questions that I think we as a community should understand more in order to plan next fall recruitment. I think there are many reasons people dropped. Some were fixed on a certain house but I think a number of people hung in until the end and then dropped after pref parties. This is just my sense but I'd be curious if someone can figure out a way to quantify the reasons for dropping. A number of the people I knew were legacies at houses and those houses dropped them after day 1 which was rough. So, some of these people certainly had a fixed idea of which house they wanted and so dropped after things didnt work out. I know we have a great and diverse community but I wonder why so many PNMs didn't seem to have an open mind about all the houses? I'm curious if people thing they did the best job possible 'marketing' their houses and making people feel welcomed? I'm not sure I have any answers myself but I think your questions are a good starting point to understanding why the fall situation was what it was. We have done alot of work on this topic at my house but I think we should look at it from a systemwide standpoint.