Hooray!

:) I'm happy that the one girl from Michigan joined Gamma Phi!

My rec crew this year had two Auburn girls:

1 at Kappa Alpha Theta
1 at Delta Gamma

That's essentially Cinci, Columbus (though a little SE, bordering on random Appalachia, near where we just moved to), CLE, Cinci (near where we just moved from), Columbus, CLE (Vi, you're thinking of Kings Mills, which is Cinci), Cinci, and Cinci.


I'm very happy to hear she is giving it a shot. This could be her ONLY shot. We all know how competitive AU is.

I wish I got contacted for recs more often. :( Not gonna likely happen in my neck of the woods now!

:) Yep yep! Go SWOH!

Wonderful! We welcome her to our sisterhood!

TNauburnmom, Congrats! My daughters prayers were answered too. They are pledge sisters!!!!!p.s. don't let them visit Wrapsody, they will want to buy everything in the store that shows their sorority on it.

On another thread are Bid Day photos. One of Auburn's chapters has a photo of their new members. Happy day!

Theta!
 

Congrats to TNauburnmom and YAUmom! My daughter is a Theta at Auburn! She said they had a great group of girls this year, she is so excited!

LOL about Wrapsody.:D

Thanks YAUmom and AUMom2011. I placed an order through Tiger Surprise yesterday and it was delivered this afternoon. My daughter has spoken highly of the sisterhood and how down to earth the girls are. She was greeted with tons of hugs today.

I started getting messages through FB. I post all of our alumnae chapter events on FB and am our self-appointed pubicity chair. They find my name and it goes from there. Because our area doesn't do Panhellenic teas and Greek Life is often a foreigh concept, I do anything I can to accommodate them.

BTW...Gates Mills = $$$$$$$ and Shaker is old money.

TNAuburnMom, I'm guessing your daughter is from TN given your screen name, my daughter is also from TN. I told her to be on the lookout for girls from TN, I scanned the bid list it looks like they took at least 4 -5.

Congratulations to the new members of Auburn NPC sororities!

From Auburn NPC FB page
Ice water Tea Day 1 & 2

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...6365215&type=1

Skit Day

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...6365215&type=3

Sorry if I missed it somewhere in this thread, but what was quota?

I am so glad that all the girls are so happy!!!! I really think my dau's unhappiness is because she got her 3rd choice, not the choice itself. Hopefully she can move past that. Its like she had a huge global meltdown today and needed 4 xanax!! Its that 'this only happened to me and I'm gonna cry about it because I want to' kind of thing. I know there were girls that were cut out of rush, or cut themselves out, so I think she's being a little selfish. Tomorrow is a new day, and she's coming home to pick up some things, hopefully her self-confidence will be there as well.

Thanks so much everyone, its been a difficult day, and ya'll made it better!!!! :)

My daughter's bid day buddy is from TN and She adores her. She is who sold my daughter on ΚΑΘ.

I am so excited to hear about all these new members!!! YEAH! Can't wait to "meet" them all!

AUmom2012 I felt bad for you and your dau all night. Being a past president of a house the matching process is horrifying. It isn't that easy. There are two lists A and B each with the quota number. If your dau didn't get her first choice perhaps they had a lot of legacies or people with rec letters. If they had legacies they go to the top of the list - The bright spot for her to know is that she most likely got her third choice because she was their first choice. However, that doesn't mean that her first choice didn't want her. It is a game of numbers. Although Panhell doesn't like to hear this, as an alum I always tell my friends daughters don't write down a house on your final list if you don't want it - I say give it a go but if she is that unhappy don't go active and go through formal recruitment again next year. I wish I new what house it was so I could give you some better words of wisdom!

How things work in your chapter, sorority and campus may not be the standard for all situations. You're also stepping ever so close to talking about membership selection.

Also, would it kill people to type out the word daughter? We chastise the young folks who come here about their poor grammar and text speak. I think the college educated adults should live up to the same standards.

One last thing, typically only the Chapter Pres, Recruitment chair and membership chair are the ones to see those lists. The members only see the list of new members right before the bids are handed out. We posted it about 15 minutes to 20 minutes b4 meeting up to congratulate our new members. So if the girls for the 1st choice took her out it was sincere - they may have been as shocked as she was!

Welcome to Kappa Alpha Theta :D Now you are about to embark on a lifelong search for kite jewelry and motifs (seriously! good luck!!!). So pleased that your daughters are happy. And thanks for the heads up on Wrapsody. Just what I needed, another place to spend $$$.

I can appreciate that but discussing membership selection is not an appropriate way to do so. Like AzTheta said, you need to remove these posts.

Also, would it kill people to type out the word daughter? We chastise the young folks who come here about their poor grammar and text speak. I think the college educated adults should live up to the same standards.[/QUOTE]

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Uhhh was this directed to me? The answer would be no. If I wanted to put her name, I may as well put her SSN and pic up too. Its a large campus, but not that large, she's doesn't need this thread or forum to deal with should she choose to de-pledge or whatever. And I didn't feel like creating a fake name or anything either. Sorry.

Type out the word "daughter."
Not her actual name ;)
I knew what it meant...also know what DD means...don't worry about it!

Looks like it was roughly around 60...under RFM "quota" is not really a set number. It's more of a range.

TNAuburnMom and YAUMom...

As a former member of Grand Council for Theta, I am so thrilled to hear about two new happy Thetas at Auburn! I was involved in the recolonization of that chapter (prior to my council service) and then spent nearly a week there for their first formal recruitment back on campus. It is a great bunch of women!

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Uhhh was this directed to me? The answer would be no. If I wanted to put her name, I may as well put her SSN and pic up too. Its a large campus, but not that large, she's doesn't need this thread or forum to deal with should she choose to de-pledge or whatever. And I didn't feel like creating a fake name or anything either. Sorry.[/QUOTE]

Type out the WORD daughter. No one expects you to use your daughter's name.
We shouldn't expect the kids who come here to use proper communication skills if adults are not willing to do so as well.

"D" : College Confidential : Helicopter Parenting

I can't speak for other GCers, but that's what it seems like to me.

Yea to all the new AGDs! Especially to the legacy I know!

As much as I feel I understand RFM, I do have a question for the super experienced. Let's use Auburn 2012 as an example. Some houses were way over what I have read was quota (58??) So if a house is 10 over, do you feel those 10 are from quota additions from girls that were low on that specific chapter's bid list (as all girls at preference are on each preference chapter's bid list somewhere) and that girl either only pref'd that house or pref'd more than one and she was simply not as low on ABC as DEF? As work week is starting, I guess I am just trying to have a deeper understanding of RFM then what is explained (which at times is "it's complicated, but it works...trust the process) I had always felt chapters that took on more girls than quota were either under total to begin with, but from what I now understand that is not true and that all chapters have to take quota additions (to reward girls that maximized their options) unless it was arranged prior to recruitment to not take anything over quota.

A girl that went through our local Panhellenic (which receives very few requests for recommendations) went Theta at Auburn! She is beyond excited!

As always, my biggest ICS/RFM experiences are with smaller scale recruitments so gurus, please correct me:

The QAs with RFM are typically those women who listed that chapter #1. They have also maxmized their options (listed all 3 choices.) You're not eligible to be a QA to any chapter if you don't maximize your options. So yes, you're right in that QAs reward those women who do so.

The main purpose of QAs is to place as many women (who have played by the rules) with their top choices.

Wouldn't women who listed a chapter first and were also on the first bid list not need to be QAs?

I wonder if Auburn will consider opening for sorority expansion within the next couple of years? With all chapters meeting quota year after year, I'd imagine it would be considered. There are still 9 wonderful NPC sororities that do not have chapters at Auburn.

My daughter is a very happy new DZ! The grapevine says that cuts were very hard this year. I can honestly say that I believe that a girl who gets a bid to ANY sorority at Auburn (and probably any SEC school!) should count herself as fortunate. We know of some who were not so lucky :( Congratulations to all the proud mamas and happy daughters! This week has been one of the most stressful of my life and I'm just glad it had a happy ending!

Congratulations future pnmmom! Great to hear!

Congratulations to all the wonderful new pledges at Auburn! My daughter is a proud new member of Zeta Tau Alpha. And I agree with future mom....all the chapters at Auburn are so great.

No. The goal of RFM is that everybody girl who sticks it out through all of recruitment gets matched with a bid somewhere.

If a PNM does not match in the top of the list for any of her three groups before they get to quota, she is generally placed in whichever of the three is smaller. This can very from school to school. At some schools they have it so that a QA will go to whichever of her top two choices is smaller, but is not necessarily her #1. (If all are the same size - the tie breaker might be her choice.)

The RFM specialist sets quota. She often will try to set it so that as many women as possible are matched AND that every chapter makes quota. Statistically, this happens then that a very large fraction of women will get their top choice from preference.

Thus every chapter making quota means that - in general - the Greek system is strong. (It does not necessarily mean ready for expansion.)

Congrats to all of you at Auburn!! I know you moms are sooo glad it's over..now for the fun part!:)