CathyXO was kind enough to post the Furman results - ADPi took the quota of 33!

Congratulations, Eta Phi!!!

Eta Epsilon took quota of 44 new alphas today! :D

I have updated the first post with the results as of now....congratulations to our newest sisters!!! :)

Sorry it took me a while to update....I was helping out with the middle school lock-in at my church last night :D

Wow!! Everything's coming up Violets !!!!!

Jen, let's hear about the lock-in, too. Maybe we need an "extracurricular" thread...?

Honey, your wish is my command :D

*scurries off to start a new thread :)*

Congrats to Zeta Rho and all the other chapters that have had successful recruitment!!! :D Honey you're right everything is coming up alphas and violets :). Just curious though...how are you allowed to take more than the quota set by panhel? Did you still have room after quota to fill up to total?

We're a smaller house so Panhel made an allowance-even with the new girls we are not up to total necessarily.

Very simplistic explanation!
 

During Bid Matching, each PNM who can be matched with her first choice is done on the first round, then a second round is conducted for the second choices. Sometimes, this overlaps. Once a chapter reaches Quota, the very excited alumnae are permitted to announce, "Quota!" and then they keep tabs on the others on their list (actually, you keep tabs on where everyone is going).

So, every PNM who can be matched is matched until each chapter reaches Quota (in theory). But, Jane, Jenny, Jill, and Jessica have suicided ADPi and you've reached Quota. TECHNICALLY, the chapter can extend up to 10% over Quota in such a case - but as this rule is made for the good of the greek system as a whole, sometimes a chapter will take a higher percentage rather than have Jill & Jessica realize that they were second stringers. Does that make sense?

Of course, then you have the snap bids up to Total, too - so say Total is 100, Quota is 20, but your chapter has only 50 members. Then, you can take Quota (20), Quota Plus (2 more), then Snap Bid 28 more!

And it's amazing how poorly I did in math, but I can do Quota/Total in my sleep...!

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Yeah, but listening to your explanations, I wish I had more experience with the Total/Bid Matching/Quota machinations!!! :)

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Unfortunately, I have never had the opportunity to say "Quota!" It's a thrill that has been denied me, possibly for life, now that more campuses are switching to computer matching. :(

I will say that, when hand bid matching is done, the first round is rather territorial, but by the time for Quota Plus, a wonderfully Panhellenic spirit fills the room! For the longest time, all the ADPi Advisors who did bid matching were redheads. Once, the DZ Advisor asked if being a redhead was a prerequisite for being an ADPi advisor! Of course, we told her yes. ;)

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I say we design a mock GC bid matching for ADPis and we give honey the honor of saying *Quota!* :D

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Thanks for the clarification honey! Allegheny has not allowed suiciding one chapter in awhile so I was not aware of that rule. I knew that you could take over quota if you were still not at total (something Eta Beta got to do last year) but I hadnt realized there was another loop hole to get you above total. And hey who am I to question what rules Panhel uses as long as it means we get more girls :).

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:D :D

Honestly, it would make my day!!

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I think this is the type of math class we really need in school! It would be waaaayyyyyy more useful than all these other formulas we had to memorize! :p