Are PNMs who drop out voluntarily (because they don't like the groups they had left on their invitation list) eligible for snap bids? I thought a PNM had to maximize her options in order to be eligible for a snap bid, but I was told that snap bids were being offered to PNMs who dropped out.

Snap bids can be offered to anyone - even if they didn't go thru recruitment. You have to maximize your options to be eligible for quota additions which are not the same thing as a snap bid.

Phi Mu posted their new member list on their blog: http://phimuatolemiss.tumblr.com/pos...-129-beautiful

At the absolute least, you can literally count on one hand the number of schools whose greek systems really and completely compare to Ole Miss, that's my humble opinion! With Illinois, I'm no expert on their greek system, but although it's really large, I say you can't really compare it to a southern flagship university like Ole Miss. Again, somebody correct me if I remember this wrong, but I believe it's been said at greekchat that recs aren't even essential for sorority recruitment there.

I agree.

Thank god for that ;-)

Most likely they ISP'd - under Ole Miss RFM, they should have been QAd if they made it to prefs.

That is what I thought, too. I just didn't want to assume ;)

Can one of you rush-savvy ladies please help me break these numbers down in my head?? :)

Okay, so this means that 1283 girls signed up for rush but 1250 participated in the first round so 33 decided not to rush afterall, right? That's easy; I get that.

Who are the 50 girls released from the system? Are they the ones who, at some point during rush, received no invitations?

If 1250 girls went through rush and 50 girls were released and 1129 participated in bid matching, what happened to the 71 girls who were not released but didn't participate in bid matching?

And the 6 who didn't match; they probably suicided I'm guessing?

Thanks in advance for translating for this Big East gal! :)

^^^ thanks KR for asking those questions, because I'm swimming with all those numbers as well. I really enjoy when other GCers patiently explain and re-explain to this West Coast/Sonoran Desert idjit.

I would assume that 71 are women who dropped out.

Perhaps this is an easier/better breakdown

Of the 1283 registered
1250 participated in first round
33 withdrew by first round

Of the 1250 participated in first round
50 released from system prior to bid matching
71 withdrew prior to bid matching
1129 participated in bid matching

Of the 1129 participated in bid matching
1123 matched
6 did not receive a bid (ISP?)

Just to compared numbers, I was told by the office of Greek Life that 1201 were registered for 2011 recruitment. So that's an increase of 82 girls. I imagine quite a few of the ones released were because of being grade risks. They were allowed to register and go through recruitment regardless of their high school GPA but were told numerous times that if they had below a 3.0, they could be released. My daughter's roommate was released because she had a 2.8. However, another girl we know was released because of her grades after philanthropy round but then offered a snap bid on bid day.

Just to clarify, they think they were released because of grades but one can only assume that was the reason.

Several Chapters released rude PNMs. Ignoring your hostess, treating her badly, or informing her that you have already secured a bid elsewhere will get you released in a hurry.