[violetpretty]

I come from a school where every chapter does informal recruitment in the fall (we have spring formal recruitment), but with total at 95, 13 of 14 chapters have 92 or more members, and one is around 80. So, even though all chapters participate in informal, almost all of them make it or come very close.

I wouldn't recommend lowering total if all groups were CORing and reaching total, but they're not. Perhaps lowering total just slightly would help. Because your chapter won't have to COR after formal recruitment, it'll help the others by not having to compete with your chapter, and you'll get to relax and enjoy your new members. I don't think lowering total is settling. When PNMs know that they can just SIP or drop out and try again in COR, that does not help the smaller chapters.