YAY!

The list of new members at Auburn is up. I wrote three recommendations for girls going to Auburn, and we have a new Sigma Kappa, Alpha Omicron Pi, and Phi Mu. Many hometown girls are in these houses already!

Now, on to the UF recommendations. I got the UA ones out, and the FSU ones are probably going to go out by Tuesday or Wednesday. I can't believe I volunteered to write 20 recs! :eek:

Munchkin, where's the list? I can't see it! And no one has called any of us here and I hope they're celebrating!

http://www.auburn.edu/panhellenic/bidlist.html

Congrats to Auburn and all their new members!

Auburn:
AXO 58
ADII 58
AOII 59
AZD 23
XO 58
DDD 61
DG 61
DZ 61
GPB 63
KD 60
KKG 61
PM 59
PBP 59
SK 58
ZTA 61

Does anyone know what quota was set at?

Thanks, OTW!:)

Okay:

Red-Zeta Tau Alpha!
Yellow-Delta Zeta!
Blue-Alpha Chi Omega!

I was told that quota was set at 58 and a lot of groups had quota additions. Yea, everybody! Warrrrrrr EAGLE!

i believe it was set at 58.

Wow, what fantastic numbers. Someone posted elsewhere that quota was 58?

ROCK ON!

Conrats to all the Auburn New Members!!!
 

I just realized that the new member numbers were posted right before I posted my list, so I am editing my post. No sense in being redundant!

I'm thrilled to see so many new Gamma Phi Beta's on the list! 63! That totally rocks! Yeah!

Carnation, I am very happy for your rainbow girls and that they have found their home! :)

Carnation, congratulations to your three rainbow girls. I hope they have fun with their new sisters.:)

Yes, very nice to both statements

Those Gamma Phi numbers just blew me away. Fantastic!

congrats to the rainbow girls!

especially red!

and the auburn zeta's for 61 fabulous new girls!

Carnation---Three new panhellenic sisters!!! Yeah for Red, Yellow and Blue!

I wrote for only 4 PNM's this year at Auburn--2 from Alabama and 2 from out of state.
All 4 received and accepted bids! One is an Alpha Chi Omega (Blue's sister now!), one an Alpha Delta Pi and two Chi Omega's.
The mom's and friends of all 4 are thrilled! I've been on the phone for 2 hours with them. Non were legacies of the chapter they joined today.

Congrats to the Blue, Red and Yellow!

Congrats to all! My girl went DG.

Congratulations to everyone!!

Yea, we have 58 beautiful squirrels, including our International President's daughter!

Now on to other campuses!:)

LOL, can't you picture what it was like for the AGDs to rush the International President's daughter! Well, that's a top chapter!

Yes, when Jackie was giving her installation speech as the new IP in June , she announced that she was a Gamma Delta, her 2 daughers were Gamma Deltas, and her 3rd daughter was going to be going through recruitment at Auburn.

Everyone turned to the Gamma Delta Collegiate President and smiled!:)

Of course, there was always the possibility she didn't want to be an Alpha Gam...yea right, lol.:)

Well, Orange is starting her rush at Georgia Tech next week and maybe she'll be an Alpha Gam! (Or maybe an AXO, ADPi, AZD, Phi Mu, or Zeta!)

NO, none of these girls are my daughters, I have gotten 4 pms about that already! I'll have another one rush next year, don't I get a year off?

C, yes of course you may have a year off, as long as you share the extended family with us. :) We love celebrating the growth of the Carnation Nation!

Hooray for your Red and my Thelma and ZTA!!!

Wow.. that must be so awesome to rush the IP's daughter!!!

I wonder what it was like for the other houses trying to rush her!

Congrats to the rainbow girls for finding their homes!!

And a big congrats to ADPi who made quota and have 58 beautiful new Alphas!!

Congratulations to everyone! As painful as they may be, those release figures really seem to be working, don't they? What's the Total at Auburn? I am SOOO glad that the Rainbow Girls all got bids!!

Special congratulations to Tiger Owl's new Alpha Delta Pi! ;)



ETA: Congratulations to AGD for bidding the IP's daughter, too!

I am glad that it all worked out and I am sure they are are a perfect fit. But if it wasn't so, would you want to be the one to make THAT phone call?

Honeychile, I will pass those congrats onto her! First choice all week long!

I think that a lot of people don't want to make any phone call like that. Of the 15 or so legacies we've known who rushed in the past year, none got their legacy group and none of the moms or sisters got a phone call from the sorority first.

Okay, I've been following this thread, and it seems to me that Carnation could actually start her own sorority! Haha. Obviously, it could be called Chi Nu. LOL!!! Well, sounds like youre taking over NPC one recruitment at a time! Congradulations to all your girls! They sound amazing! Here's to hoping for kites flying around your house in the future...


Also, I would personally be a <<<<<<<NERVOUS WRECK>>>>>>> rushing the IP's DAUGHTER! GOODNESS GRACIOUS!!! More power to those girls trying to keep their composure!

Wow! Congratulations to Red, Yellow, and Blue - may they find happiness in their new sisterhoods.

And I checked the Auburn list (isn't that nice to have posted?), and saw that a local girl pledged Delta Zeta (and another pledged Phi Mu)! It is so exciting to see girls I know going through rush and "finding their homes".

TigerOwl, thank you! It's especially good to hear about someone who gets their first choice!

Everyone's heard my "that phone call" story, so I won't bore y'all with it again. I've since heard of a Chapter Founder's granddaughter being cut, and that phone call couldn't have been fun - but the PNM in that case was thrilled - she loved ADPi from the start and didn't like her legacy chapter on her campus!

We bid our then-Grand President's daughter in the 1980's, at Allegheny College. Even if she didn't like ADPi, I doubt that she had much of a choice! ;)

One of my chpater sisters mother was a colony member of another sorority on Auburn's campus, and her sister was either in the chapter, or JUST graduated. And she got cut from that sorority pretty early in the week. She found out when se went to accept invitations, and her mother only found out when she got a chance to call her and tell her. The mother was livid (I would be too) and called the chapter advisor. The advisor swore that there must have been a mistake made and out the blame on Panhellenic. But she continued with recruitment and found a home in Alpha Xi Delta. Things couldn't have worked out better for her. She went on to be Recording Secretary and Financial VP, and she is now an advisor on another campus.

Auburn's chapter was used to this since her first two daughters went through recruitment when the IP was the International Vice President Collegians. She encouraged all of her daughters to be open and consider all of the sororities, but I know she is thrilled that they are all Alpha Gams.
By the time you hold a position like that, you are even more Panhellenically minded, I think.

Congrats to everyone!

Didn't one of your friend's or relative's daughters go ZTA last year, too? Do the girls know each other?

Word is that 918 recieved bids. Not sure if that is how many received or how many accepted....and they started with 1184 (may be off 1-2 girls up or down). So approx 78% were placed.

My friend's daughter received a bid from KKG at Auburn. I don't know any other info because I have not talked to them yet.

Yeah for your friend's daughter! They had 61 girls yesterday - held a beautiful reception in the afternoon and then the girls went out to dinner with their "sister for the day" and other pairs of new pledges and sisters; then back to the chapter room for a "spend the night" party. Looked like a really cute group of girls. Seemed to be a fair mix of in and out of state girls...that will make for a strong group. Haven't heard yet how many legacies accepted bids.

I have absolutely no knowledge of what things are like at Auburn outside of the discussions that have happened here. And, in no way am I wanting to ruffle any feathers here. So, with that said...

If quota was 58, and AZD has a NM class of 23, then I don't think the release figures are working as well as they should be. If there weren't quota additions, AZD could have (theoretically) pledged 48.

I guess I just don't understand quota additions when one of the groups has a NM class of less than half of all the others.

Again, I'm just going on math and what could theoretically happen. Maybe I just need someone to explain how/why other groups can take as many as 63 (no offense, GPhiB) and one of the groups gets only 23.

Can anyone help explain this to me?

There's always going to be a group that unfortunately, whether it be the "tent talk", current low numbers, etc, whatever reason, can't compete with other chapters. Theoretically, AXiD could have had those quota additions, but would those girls have ACTUALLY chosen to go there?? And, things tend to go in cycles, so this year AXiD is low man, but it could be 3 years from now, AXiD is taking total and quota and GPhiB is struggling for half a pledge class.

Not picking on the particular groups I mentioned...they just happened to be at the school we're talking about.

The quota additions don't hurt other chapters, the PNMs who were "quota+" would not be ones who listed AZD. You could try to force a bid match to AZD or they could have tried to snap those quota+ girls, but that doesn't work as well for either the PNMs (who didn't list AZD) or the chapter (who may have more bids to offer, but will probably not get more girls accepting the bids.

Well, we wouldn't know unless they're offered the choice.

I realize that there are going to be groups that struggle for one reason or another, and it also makes sense that such struggling is somewhat cyclical. But, I guess I feel like the 25 quota-additions should've been extended bids to AXiD (assuming AXiD had them on their bid list) instead of the remaining groups (all of which had already reached quota). If those 25 quota-additions didn't want to accept, they wouldn't have to.

Carnation, I don't mean to hijack your thread... congrats to your rainbow girls.:D