LOL! How true.

Sorry yall, I was at the lake for the holiday with no cell service... I realize I probably picked a bad time to start writing a recruitment story, and that I should have written it all down before hand... but I didn't think to do that or really pay attention to my schedule when starting writing this. I'm sorry!
Anyways, here is the last installment of my recruitment story!


The next day I went to meet with my RC to pick up my schedule for preference night.
She told me I had gotten a full round of 2 parties, so I should be very excited, but when I opened my schedule, I couldn't help but be devastated.

I was invited back to Cape Town and Sydney.

Rome had dropped me.
I was shocked. I had thought for sure Rome was the place for me and that I would be happily running with all the other new Rome's on bid day.
I was still happy that I had Cape Town, having been another one of my favorites, but I was terrified that I would end up in Sydney, a house I didn't really feel like I belonged in.

After consoling me for a few minutes, my RC asked me what I was going to do. I still had one house left that I loved, so I was determined to go to preference night and show Cape Town that I fit in with them and that I belonged in their house.

The first party I went to was Sydney.
I don't know if it was just that I wasn't feeling the house or what, but I was not impressed with their preference. While the service itself was beautiful, the conversation I had was a far shot from convincing me that I could see myself here. My rusher probably asked me about 5 times if I had any questions, and despite my attempts to keep the conversation flowing, I found it very difficult.
I left Sydney unsure of if I would accept a bid from this house if I did in fact get one.

My final preference party was Cape Town, which I was very excited for. The girl that picked me up at the door was not someone I had met before, but she was from the same area I was, so we had a lot to talk about. The ceremony was beautiful, and I found myself about to cry at one point. I left Cape Town praying I would get a bid here.

I was debating that night if I should even rank Sydney, or just "suicide" bid Cape Town, but my RC convinced me that I would have a better chance at Cape Town if I put down Sydney as well because of the way the computer system ran.

Nervous and excited, I anxiously [COLOR="rgb(0, 255, 255)"]Cape Town[/COLOR] day.

Bid night came around and at 5 pm we were all outside waiting to get our bid cards... I got mine and noticed the familiar blue and gold ribbon at the top, and happily read that I was invited to join CAPE TOWN! ... otherwise known as














DELTA DELTA DELTA!!!!!

Yay! Congratulations!

Congratulations!

And thank you for ending our torture.

Woo hoo! A Tri Delta ending!

Thank you for sharing your story with us! :)

Congrats!

Awesome story!

Congrats.

Thanks for coming back to finish your story. Hopefully you had a great time at the lake this weekend!
Congratulations on Tri Delta!

What your RC told you is just dead wrong. Your chances of getting a Cape Town bid were not increased if you put down both chapters on your bid card rather than a Cape Town suicide bid. Your chances of a Cape Town bid were determined solely by where you fell on the Cape Town bid list and the number of girls on that bid list who listed Cape Town first before your name came up and not some way the computer system works. RCs tell PNMs that because they believe that it is there obligation to have the maximum number of PNMs get bids anywhere but it is just not true.

BadCat25 - a PNM that refuses to maximize her options on her MRABA cannot be a Quota Addition. We will never know if she was a QA-NM or not. If she SIPed her first choice, so was not eligible for QA but was not high enough on her SIP Chapter bid list she would have had no bid at all. It's a question of whether you want to be Greek or not. It is playing odds without knowing all the variable but such is life.

This is correct. Maximizing your options does in fact increase your odds of getting a bid, even your #1 choice, over SIPing. The problem is that she may be matched with her second choice before she can be made a QA to her first choice. It's a gamble, but the choice to SIP should ONLY be made if the PNM would rather NOT be Greek than accept her second choice.

Thank you! You're answer is simpler and I like it better.

Congratulations on Delta Delta Delta!

Correct. She would have gone to Sydney before being QA'd to Cape Town if she didn't go to them as a normal bid.

True. But as was said above SIP could mean no bid at all if Cape Town filled their bid list before she came up.