Deleted. Didn't realize DG had already been discussed. Should have read more carefully.

===
So without getting into membership selection, if in theory there are more legacies (that everyone simply LOVES :D ) than potential bids/spaces, then the “first bid list” would need to be done – in theory – prior to the preference round?

Chapters who have a lot of legacies go through rush are very cognizant of this. You generally have an idea of what quota will be so you can release any legacies you can't take early enough in the process that they can find another match. Luckily, this is only a problem at a select few chapters.

I will say that regardless of the policy, holding a legacy through pref and not giving them a bid is probably the worst way to handle a legacy situation. Talk about World War 3!

I have to say that I am really uncomfortable about this discussion. Do we REALLY want legacy PNMs knowing this policy? I had a younger sister go through rush several years ago. She was a Theta legacy, but I specifically did NOT tell her about what that meant at the pref round. How crappy would that have been of me to ruin her anticipation & the thrill of opening the envelope at Bid Day? That memory is one of my favorites in my sorority experience.

Having the information that if they (a legacy) are invited back to pref, they are all but guaranteed a bid to that chapter is not information that I really think they should have... just my 2 cents worth.

By george I think I get it
 

So to avoid World War 3, a chapter – in theory – "should" only invite back to the preference round the number of legacies that they can “guarantee” a spot on their first bid list.

I now “get it” why so many legacies must be / are released prior to a preference round at chapters where more legacies go through than possible bids.

i do not believe that the legacy policy that kansas state u. has listed for ZTA is correct, unless there was a revision made during our last convention a summer ago.

at some places there would be more legacies than slots for new members, even if they dropped every girl that was not a legacy.

For what it's worth, all of this information is available on the public websites of the GLOs. If the PNMs wanted to know this, they could look there just as easily as looking here. I knew when I went through that if I made it to pref, AOII had to take me. What that really means, though is that if I made it to pref, AOII wanted me. At that point, it was my decision if I wanted to accept their bid.

The Theta web site has LOTS of pages, but I cannot find any kind of information on the membership selection process or who is placed where on a bid list on pages that the public can access. Maybe I am uncomfortable with making this kind of information public is because Theta does not do it. I looked, but I could still be wrong about the web site!

I had the same thought, but I was able to find Alpha Phi's policy online just as Jen wrote it.

This is all that I found on the public portions of the site:

Therefore, publicly, our site only mentions "special consideration" with regards to legacies.

Well then, I agree that your information shouldn't be listed as such. Makes you wonder where that came from.

i bet these relatives throw a big fit when they receive a call that their legacy is cut. or do they not care?

It depends.

A pretty accurate formula:

The size of the bitch that an alumna pitches if her legacy is cut is often inversely proportionate to the amount of time/involvement she has put into her chapter/national org since leaving college.

In other words, if she's stayed involved and realizes that just because the chapter/org was a fit for her, doesn't mean it and her daughter are a match, she's more likely to understand. Women who have not had any part in rush or membership selection for 20 years have a very rose-colored view of what it used to be like.