It was mentioned somewhere that quota has the potential to be 100, but it won't be set until after they know how many women attend pref.

The rounds are 16/max 12/max 8/max 3.

EVERYTHING your PNM needs to know is either at:

http://www.uapanhellenic.com/

or

http://issuu.com/katgillan/docs/greek_chic_2012_final

Thank you! Haha, I am thrilled to learn that my "Sorry my grades were bad and I have no recs, but I was busy training for the Olympics" excuse has resonated throughout GC.

Hi, I'm 28StGreek and I am an Olympic-oholic.

Letters were emailed To PNMs parents stating the 16/ 12/ 8/ 3 as well as a small explanation of the process and rounds of parties. Loved the line " If your daughter maximizes her options, meaning she attended all parties that she was invited to and lists all of the chapters that she visits during the preference round, then she is guaranteed to receive a bid for membership from any one of the chapters she lists on her MRABA (Membership Recruitment Acceptance Binding Agreement)
I guarantee there will be PNMs who don't list all and cry foul.....there always is!

Oh course there will be. Princess Snowflake PNM will say that she did maximize her options by attending all parties and listing all chapters that were worthy of her. Any other parties/chapters were not really options and therefore not covered in this instance. :rolleyes:

Oy, I hope they make it clear that you are not guaranteed a bid if you are dropped prior to pref.

It says "lists all of the chapters she visits during the preference round" so I think that pretty clear that if you don't attend preference, you are not getting a bid.

It probably should have been typed like this, "lists ALL of the chapters she visits during the preference round."

I think that it should be worded in a way that emphasizes not just listing ALL, but actually being willing to accept a bid from each. That's usually the problems with snowflakes.

They are perfectly willing to list all their chapters if it will help get them a bid to their top one, but they don't really think they should have to join a group that they liked less.

Snowflakes aside....we have parents who think that if their daughter gets to Pref and only goes to 1 party that she will automatically receive a bid to that house! Really??? Hasn't always happened that way in the past.

Actually, I am 99% sure this is how it works...maximizing your options counts even if there is only 1 house to put down! Someone with better Alabama intel jump in here...

Unless of course you're talking about Snowflake who has 3 houses and SIP's her fave. THEN there are no guarantees!

Ahhh...perhaps in the cases I'm thinking of snowflake hasn't shared the WHOLE story. The "oh woes is me I didn't get a bid" could in fact be because she SIP's her fave. That makes sense. I worry about "false hope"...but maybe the snowflakes are their own demise.

Right, I know that's what it says. I think we all know that there is a gap between what we tell PNM's/moms and what they see/hear.

I know of an instance at D's school last year where a girl attended 3 pref parties, but only listed 2 on her card..left the third one off on purpose, and was released completely...the computer kicked her out:eek:....
She later blamed it on the Rho G's for not explaining to her that this could/would happen.

Are there certain systems that do that? I was under the impression that Greek Life tells them that will happen because they don't want any one to SIP. I know our system lets you SIP.

Could it be that she went bidless because she wasn't high enough on either bid list, and she told people/someone told her that to try and make it seem less personal? I mean we'll never know where she was on the bid lists, but unless someone reputable from Panhellenic told her that she was dropped because the computer kicked her out (possibly with a reference to that part of their guidelines, as I don't think that's the kind of thing they would intentionally keep secret from PNMs) I'm more inclined to think this is a case of a girl saving face.