Have her contact campus Panhellenic to let them know she is interested in COB. Every chapter made quota, however they may or may not be at campus total (the cap on the number of girls chapters can have). If the camps re-adjusts total after formal recruitment which many campuses do, then there should be a few spots open.

Should she post her gpa as 3.6?

This gave me chills when I read it. So many congrats to your daughter!!!

This made me LOL. On a side note, I wonder if RFM is making it harder or easier for those who want to purposely bomb their rush (i.e. those who were forced by mom to go through) to do so. Not Auburn, necessarily, but in general.

No. Because most all schools operate on a 4.0 scale. I've never even heard of a 4.5 scale. And she doesn't have a 3.6/4.0. If she lists her GPA as 3.6, and does not clarify that it is on a 4.5 scale, they will assume it's out of 4.0, and when they check it against her transcript and find out she lied, it will look very bad.

Even if you clarify a 3.6/4.5 it doesn't make a difference. Her GPA is what it is. If she chooses to re-rush during formal recruitment next year, her college GPA will be what matters.

Just to be clear, "guaranteed placement" means once they have been invited to preference party/ies. It is not common but unfortunately does happen that girls get cut completely from rush at some point before preference parties. As far as I know there is only one school where a girl is guaranteed admission into a sorority from day 1.

I don't want to start a firestorm, but my guess is Auburn is going to be looking for expansion in the next year or so. I would say there is hope for your daughter, either through rushing as a sophomore or colony expansion. Make sure she gets very involved on campus, keeps her grades high and her reputation impeccable.

As far as GPA, she should post it as the "based on 4.0" number, but from the end of the first semester her high school grades will no longer matter. As soon as she has a college GPA, that is the only one that will matter. And a/some sororities may have an informal rush, but it will likely be next semester if it does happen.

omg omg omg omg omg!!!! I'm so so happy to hear that! FIRST ON HER LIST! <3 It was love at first KITE! I can't wait to get to know your daughter and all the fabulously gorgeous and wonderful new members! YAYAYAYAYAYAY!


(sorry I'm still in bid day mode)

Totally. And I understand why you needed to clarify.

I was surprised to learn though that basically, if I've understood the last few posts correctly, that if your campus using RFM that it also has guaranteed placement because I thought you could have one without the other.

When I looked at the UGA recruitment guide, they still mention "mismatch" for when girls who pref go bidless, but maybe this can only happen to girls who don't maximize their options on the bid card. Or maybe the just haven't update the glossary in The Pointer.

Really only guaranteed placement NOT going hand in hand with RFM is at Indiana which should never be included in discussions of this subject.

They shouldn't use any terms like mismatch. The only time that happens is if a girl doesn't maximize her options- writes down fewer than all of the chapters at which she attended a preference party. SIP, suicide, any of those terms, is so charged with controversy that they're (badly) trying to find another way to explain it. But I think girls SAY they got cross-cut or a bunch of other words to describe things that aren't real because they don't want to admit they did something that stupid. They limited their choices and got screwed. And the day AFTER rush, that omg I couldn't possibly be in THAT chapter is just another house to everyone who is not Greek.

I find guaranteed placement interesting from the standpoint of the sorority. In the past, pref could be one more look at a PNM. If the sorority didn't like that last look, they could place her low on the bid list and chances are, she would end up somewhere else. Now, sororities need to be sure that every PNM invited to pref is someone they want in their chapter. Even the girl dead last on the list could show up on bid day. I know this could have happened before as well, but it seems much more likely with guaranteed placement.

If you're guaranteed a place if you make it to pref, couldn't a girl pretty much make sure she only had one party that she wanted?

No, because after pref is the only time that women get the chance to "cut" chapters, by not listing them. Unless you mean sabotage her parties...? That'd be a risky maneuver.

By acting horribly at most of her 3rd round parties, and nice at her favorite? That's a risky strategy...word gets around, and she very well might end up with nothing.

You and I are on the same wavelength. To me, RFM is simply a tool to give rushees a more realistic idea of where they could receive a bid. The way we're talking about it here almost makes it seem like the chapters with the best return rates have to make their decisions on day one of rush.

If the chapters with high return rates don't make their decisions early, then there will be PNMs without invites at later parties because the more realistic Chapters had dropped off their radar as the number of parties decreased each round.

The reason RFM was put into place was for just ^^^ this reason. The girls would drop the less popular chapters early, get to just before preference and take a HUGE cut, and then attend preference parties and maybe not match anywhere because all the girls are at the same 3 preference parties.

So those top 3 chapters are required to make huge cuts after round 1 and the middle and lower chapters are given a chance to shine to girls who in previous years wouldn't have seen them after round 1. I think this is one of the big reasons behind the meteoric rise in sorority membership - girls are sticking with the program and finding different sororities to love. Even though there are still tiers, at a lot of schools even the least preferred are still making quota, which means the tiers don't mean anything once rush is over.

This just came up on another thread...the number of women who have not just friends, but ROOMMATES or BIOLOGICAL SISTERS in other chapters.

I swear that some of those girls in the Weird Rush Stories thread had to be trying that.

http://www.al.com/news/montgomery/in...uburn_uni.html

Auburn bid list

No because someone will invite her and that means she'd have to list both and she may end up with the one she didn't really want. No, you can't play it like that and be successful.

They have a set number they can invite back and it's based on their historical acceptances. So a top group may have to release 30% on the first invitational. It's pretty heavy numbers for some groups. You can't include someone you really don't want when this is the case. And it's the whole point of RFM. Every group could have a different number to invite to each round.

I'm betting this. With the exception of new pictures, the 2014 Pointer looks remarkably like my 1993 Pointer. Which, yes, I still have.

Yeah, it looks quite a bit like the 2001 Pointer... :)

Hi all! Just got back from a weekend at Auburn! My daughter's bid was with Kappa Alpha Theta. She is very happy to be a new Theta! :D

Congratulations!

Ideally is wouldn't happen, but if a PNM gets to Round 3-Skit then has no invites for Pref they ranked incorrectly after round one or round 2 OR the Chapters she had for round 2 had too many invites.

Yay for all the PNMs and welcome to you daughter AUMom14!

I am not sure about this. I know pnms who had invites for round 3 but were released after that, so no pref invites. Without going into too much detail, this came from both strong and weak recruiting chapters.

I think it can work both ways: WRC's sometimes release women who seem set on SRC's, too. The point is the RFM tries to mitigate these types of situations, not that it's perfect.

^^^THIS. Thank you.

Congrats to your daughter and to Kappa! :)

Somewhere in my files, I have a 1975 Pointer!

Any news in who is involved in cob??

http://family.auburn.edu/video/aubur...ource=activity
Cute bid day video!

Yeah, I was thinking about this reading the posts from the disappointed moms in the UGA thread. It's so much better than it used to be, but some human behavior is hard to make predictions about 100% of the time. RFM does what it can.

Congrats to everyone that the process worked for!

Since the pledge classes were so large and overall recruitment numbers were up, do you think AU will open for expansion soon?

Opinion? Yes. Know anything about anything? No. Is there free lodge space? The girls don't live in the chapter "houses" right? Or just a few? Someone please remind how the sorority housing works there.

Usually selected sophomores and exec live on the hall. In most sororities it goes by GPA. It is my understanding that there is one open space that is currently used by panhellenic.

OK, I thought it was something like that. And I thought I remembered seeing a map of the area that showed at least one available space.

Love the video, DDDMomma. :D

DDDMomma ---

Thanks for sharing the link to the video. So cute!!!

Delta Love!