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College Panhellenics set rules as to how the recruitment will be run. The individually sororities make their own membership criteria/selection process within the parameters set by Panhellenic, NPC, and their national organization. The majority of college panhellenics use the release figure method (RFM).

Each chapter's return rates for a set number of years are evaluated and used to determine how many PNMs that chapter is allowed to ask back. It changes per round. The chapters that "everyone" wants to return to have higher return rates, thus it is safer for them to release more PNMs, because those who do receive an invitation from this chapter will, 9.9/10 times go back to that chapter. Conversely, those chapters who are not in that category are allowed to invite more PNMs back. The object of this method is for as many PNMs to receive bids as possible.

If the PNM attends all the parties she is asked back to, and lists the chapters where she attended pref on her MRABA (bid card), she will receive a bid. She is not guaranteed a bid if she attends two parties, but lists just one choice (Single Intentional Preference-SIP, some people say Intentional Single Preference-ISP). So short story long, if your daughter's Panhellenic used RFM, and the PNMs went with the flow and gave all the chapters a chance to woo them and accepted the bid extended them, the pledge rate would've been much higher.