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Thinking again

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After seeing what’s been said about RFM, and taking some time to research it, i’ve come to realize that’s honestly the most fair option for both PNM’s and chapters.. I know it doesn’t seem that way at first, and it’s truly unfortunate a lot of awesome girls get cut after open house round, but this seems to be the most fair way to operate recruitment without having a wholistic negative effect on both chapters and PNMs. I think it’s important to be realistic with the fact that certain chapters generally put on a greater showing, along with having notoriety that happens during open house round. Consequently a large percentage of PNMs want to return to these chapters. While more PNMs having a chance to return to said chapters the next round would be nice there are a few things to consider. If everyone wants to go back to the same places next round, there are lots of chapters who would be overlooked and cut despite the fact that many PNMs would obviously fit in with and have a great experience. Allowing certain chapters to have a larger recruiting pools than others during formal recruitment flat out isn’t fair. The next point would be that every chapter has a criteria for what they consider for membership, and it would be unrealistic to assume that all the girls who want to return to a certain after open house fits that criteria. Allowing girls that wouldn’t be realistically considered to continue to attend a chapter’s parties would only set girls up for heartbreak after investing so much hope and emotion into the week and that isn’t fair to the PNMs. It would also be unfair to chapters who would have to have more parties during the day due to the inequity to have to go longer in the day recruitment, and I think we can all agree while everyone finds the importance in recruitment it’s super exhausting, and adding more hours to it on any chapter would be all too much. And yes, while even though some girls who would be fair candidates for membership might get cut, the chapters just have to be super strict for who they really want to consider initially so PNMs can be evenly disbursed amongst all the chapters. RFM isn’t perfect at all, but without it recruitment honestly could be a lot more rough. At the end of the day, with the current process PNMs are at least getting to visit chapters that are genuinely interested in seeing what they have to offer and how they could fit into their sisterhood and they have a realistic chance of getting to join depending on how the week goes. If I could come up with a better system I would. However, with the logistics of providing fairness and a mutual selection process, this just might be the best we can do. And that’s a partial reason for COB in the fall — to compensate for the flaws of recruitment and of course to give girls who never signed up for recruitment a chance of getting involved in sorority life. But all of these concerns are completely valid, and I feel for everyone who’s been affected :(