Also, OP - Have you gotten in touch with your recruitment counselor (Pi Chi, Rho Gamma, whatever your school calls them). She knows you went through recruitment, she could potentially help advocate for you now.

I saw upthread that one of your pref chapters is engaged in COB. You could also let them know that you are still interested directly. If you do this, however, don't tell them the whole story, just say something like "formal recruitment didn't work out for me, but I'd still like to get to know your chapter better in the future".

Keep us updated, OP!

Come back, sopiealexa and let us know how your visit with your Rho Gam went...all of us are dying out here! :)

Yes please! This is one of the craziest things I've ever heard, I'm dying to know how it works out! There HAS to be a way!

Yikes! What a terrible thing to have happen. Clearly a bad glitch. I hope it works out for you in the best way and that you don't miss too much new member bonding time. Give yourself a great big gold star for reacting with class and dignity--but don't take "no" for an answer. There is a bid out there with your name on it and you deserve it!

I know of a girl who was "cross cut" at TCU last month, went to 2 the last day, listed both, got nothing. She did NOT cut a house that last day. Won't mention house names because it is a Panhel office mistake, not the houses' fault.

Sophiealexa, we are all pulling for you! A mature person like you will be an asset to a house for sure.

bet that is the problem, no pushy momma raising *%&!--MAYBE this is a BIG recruitment school, and they are fixing the "squeaky wheel" problems first?

KEEP ON being mature and assertive, love honeychile's line! "I was invited to THREE Pref parties, and at least one is engaged in continuous open recruitment. I want my bid." "I know this is a mistake, please fix it immediately."

Frankly, if they don't resolve it tomorrow, I'd go higher. Deal only with the head of Panhel/Greek Life office, those under her have not gotten it done.

The Greek Life people report to the President or Chancellor of your University. GET AN APPOINTMENT. Mention that you have an appointment with them TO Greek Life.
This should have been handled on day ONE of the end of recruitment, which was now 2 days ago. Stand up for yourself, what do you have to lose?

I'd be mortified if my mother called up my school on my behalf for anything I couldn't handle myself as a grown and legal adult. Being known as the girl with the guano mama to people in greek Life is not how I'd want to start my college career or life in a greek organization. The only time my mother ever contacted my school for something outside of student accounting was when I was out of the country and the computer system changed my gender and age. Since this affected scholarships, my living quarters, and a myriad of other things, and I was in a different time zone, my mother handled it for me.

Yes yes, I realize I'm not a parent and I don't understand :rolleyes: but I'm a kid and attended college; if parents think their influence and interfering doesn't cause problems for their kids they are mistaken. Faculty, staff, and students hear about and witness this behavior, and we aren't impressed. FERPA rules.

I'm a parent. You understand perfectly. ;)

I keep hoping that since we haven't heard from OP since yesterday afternoon that she's gotten it resolved and has taken her place with her new Pledge Class.

Or if not, she's busy putting a banana in the tailpipe of the GLO Director's car...

I have seen some Panhellenics who give the chapters who did not make quota until a certain time to do snap bidding (say 5 pm) and then chapters not at Total are allowed to offer bids to anybody they want until they are at Total. I've also seen campuses that allowed chapters to snap bid to Total. Not all campuses follow the Green Book to the letter.

It's really impossible for any of us to know what happened to this young lady. It's really unfortunate that she didn't get "the call" in advance and again, it's her recruitment counselor who claims she wasn't on a list to get a call.. perhaps the recruitment counselor just dropped the ball, not wanting to have to make that phone call or something. It's worth investigating just what went wrong.

I'm also aware of one situation where Panhellenic became aware of something in a PNMs background immediately after Prefs and alerted all chapters to the fact and allowed them to remove her from the bid list. Extremely rare, yes. But again, it's impossible for us to know what happened.

To the OP, I say: ouch, really sorry that something like this happened.

However, based on the previous posts in the thread, I'm really scared about how much several of you trust the computers. As a former sysadmin, I can see a very plausible (and common) case where this situation could happen:

1.) PNMs put in preferences on the system.
2.) System does its magic at night, crunching the lists, ranking, etc. This is an intensive optimization problem...

<meanwhile> ... sysadmin receives a page ... [error on system xyz, I/O error, system crashed]

3.) Just as luck would have it, the system is not written robustly enough, so the PNM has just been deleted off the "unprocessed" list but not fully added to a bid list.

4.) System comes back up, attempts to resume computation, finds anomaly, and "auto-fixes" it based on what it knows: all completed transactions are processed, all incomplete ones are deleted. The girl is no longer on any lists because of the consequences in (3) and thus gets purged from the system during the consistency check.

5.) System resumes and leaves girls SOL.

Yes, the system could have been written to prevent this, but this usually requires lots of care and foreward thinking. Usually, programmers don't really take that much care unless it's something as critical as banking transactions, etc. As a geek, I can say that many of my GDI colleagues have this viewpoint: so what if something like this happens, girl can just go thru recruitment again next year. After all, such a mistake has even happenend before on the systems powering the NYSE, inducing a stock market crash.

Anyways, I hope this gets resolved soon.