Bid Day Results
 

Feel free to post any results you may know of here!

Delta Iota (uga!) should know a few hours how many girls they got..Almost positive it was quota and then some--there were quite a few PNMs crying at the pref ceremony--but in a GOOD way!!!!

Mississippi State
 

The Delta Lambda Chapter at Mississippi State got 89 new girls! 21 of those are legacies. They were the largest pledge class on the row, and the largest class in Delta Lambda's history! Quota was 85.

Also, just to add these to the big results thread:
The Delta Pi Chapter at Southern Miss got 35 new girls. 7 of them are legacies. They were the largest pledge class on campus, exceeding quota which was 31.

Call out the DGs with UGA connections....some results are coming in!

i am so happy for uga! that would be so awesome for them to get quota! i can't believe 21 legacies! :)

I'm on pins and needles waiting to hear about Delta Iota....It is so hard being 8 hours away from Athens! Many thanks to GreekAlphaSoup for helping me out!

wow 21 legacies!

for uga, that really isn't a lot. many of the houses here usually have enough legacies coming through to make a pledge class and a half.

True^^, but to actually complete the whole process and the sisters really feel these legacies are true matches speaks volumes!

i don't think uga got 21 legs. i think it was mississippi state

At Auburn University - Delta Sigma chapter:

i think i misinterpreted because uga had like 21 legacies go through.


for those who were wondering, UGA got 42 (or 43..not sure, snap bidding confused my numbers) WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL, AMAZING girls..When pic man posts the pictures, I'll be sure to share them. Not to toot our own horn, but I really am proud of us.

And I'm really proud of my chapter!! All the hard work is really starting to pay off---I know you all aren't far from reaching quota. :D

a lot of the houses on campus that normally meet quota were a few under this year, it was really weird. our girls are amazing amazing amazing ammmazinggg

I am soooo proud of you girls! It is so amazing that you matched almost TWICE the number of girls that you did two years ago!

I know y'all will reach quota after COB. :)

that's so great! i think uga was on the recruitment honor roll this past issue of the anchora! way to go girls!

FSU and UF should have results by tonight.

They've had a nightmarish scenario at both campuses, with the tropical storm that brought down about 10 inches of rain and forcing cancellation of rush parties.

Hang in there, Gamma Mu and Gamma Theta!

Two amazing groups for DG!!!!

I know they will pull through with great pledge classes despite the weather.

Don't know about Gamma Theta at UF, but all houses at FSU made quota of 48.
Congrats to my Gamma Mu chapter!

Any pictures???

And in the west...
 

Beta Omega (Washington State) - Pledged 37. Quota of 36. :)

Nu (Idaho) - Pledged 27. Quota of 27. :)

Bid Day Results at Tennessee
 

The Gamma Alpha chapter at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville received 55 new members this past Sunday! Quota was 46. They got a great group of girls!!

This puts Gamma Alpha over total by 30 members for a chapter total of 170 active members!

Here's a link to the Bid Day pictures: http://bopp.tennesseepics.com/Q/Proo...572&Key=1D561F

UT Results
 

Gamma Alpha at the University of Tennessee had a fantastic recruitment this fall despite transitioning from the Accept/Regret to Priority Selection system. Our return rates were at least 20% higher than they have been in the past 3 years and we got an amazing pledge class. Now we are one of the largest sororities on campus!

Quota: 46
Pledged: 55
Panhellenic Total: 142
DG Total: 170

Courtney - VP:Membership

Quota at Texas Tech was 49 - every chapter (including ours!) made it. No further specifics.

Eta Iota (Univ of Nevada, Reno): Quota 34; Pledged 38!

I don't understand quota, I guess. How can a chapter pledge more than quota? I thought quota was set as the maximum number a house could take.

Where can I find more about these terms? When I went through, no house was anywhere near total, and quota wasn't a term we even used. Every house rushed as few/many as it chose, and bid as few or as many as it chose, and some girls got five bids, and some got none. So I have no formal experience against which even to glean the knowledge from context.

Quota is usually the max a chapter can take, however, with the new release figure system, Panhellenic is trying to make it so every woman that goes through recruitment is placed. This causes for most chapters to go over quota.
For example.....lets use Kent State as an example since I'm familiar with the campus and have been on this end there for 4 years.....
Say 190 women are participating in the last round of recruitment and there are 6 chapters. Quota would be set by dividing the amount of women participating by the number of chapters = 31

31 x 6 = 186 which means there are 4 girls left with nowhere to go....instead of leaving them out, Panhel looks at their choices and if they match with a chapter, they go to that chapter. This causes chapters to get more than 31 women.

Now there are always women who don't match anywhere....and they will ask the other chapters if they would like to snap-bid that woman. Snap-bidding is offering a bid to someone who was not on your bid list. This is another way chapters can get to quota. Chapters who are already at quota might not be offered the opportunity to snap-bid......however, in making it possible for all women to be placed, they might be.

Alright.....so I hope that helps.....if it seems confusing, sorry! Sometimes it doesn't make sense to me either!

you did a super job^^

Thanks for the help. I have to admit I don't understand why you'd bid someone who wasn't on your bid list, or why everyone has to get a bid, or why girls only get one bid, but I guess that's the result of a different kind of system.

Is all this laid out somewhere I can research? I don't want to hijack the thread.

It could have been someone you liked but not enough to invite back to pref or dropped you herself....if she had spectacular grades and involvement.....i'd definately bid her whether or not she came to our last round or not.

I'm not sure if all of this is written down somewhere online. you could always get on npcwomen.org (NPCs website) and snoop around. if you can't find anything....call the closest greek life person to you and ask some questions....i'm sure they'd be happy to help you (well....unless your calling in the middle of recruitment! :p)

DGTess, you might want to PM Titchou on this. She understands all that stuff - I sure don't!!:p

DGTess: You don't say where you went to school or when but hopefully this will help.

Up until 20 or so years ago, the max number a chapter could pledge was quota. No one could take more than that number. No matter how many women were left over or what happened, that was it. Quota was usually set at pref or the day before by dividing the number of rushees left by the number of chapters on campus. 100 women, 5 chapters, quota is 20. If someone got a bid to AAA and didn;t want it and all the other groups already took quota, she was left out. Sorry, end of story.

Then, they (Panhellenic) decided too many women were being left out by this method so they invented a thing called quota additions. In this case, if a woman maximized her opportunities - that is, went to as many prefs as allowed and listed all on her bid card - she could be considered for quota additions if she somehow missed out on matching otherwise. QAs were limited to 5% of quota. So if quota was 20 then QA would be a max of 1. So, a chapter could conceivably pledge 21 against a quota of 20. This added a few more women back into the system who would have otherwise been left out. But some still got left out.

Fast forward to this century. PH is looking for a way to ensure more women are matched. RFM (Release Figures Method) is born. In this model, a "quota range" is determined before pref that is a range of numbers that will give the best opportunity to pledge all the women. So, if range is 23-26, final quota could be any of those numbers, based on what the computer determines places the most women. When this is done, the computer runs the lists at each potential quota and choses the one that places the most women. It could be under the old method that quota would have been 23 and 5 would have gotten left out. Under RFM, it might be that quota is 24 and everyone gets a bid....which is what we want. It also does away with the cap on quota additions and allows for all the women to be placed if, once again, they have "maximized their options."

As an example, at UAB this week, there were 115 women left after pref. Quota was determined by the RFM to be 26. It gave 26 to one group, 27 to two groups and 37 to the 4th group and all women were placed. It may be that at quota of 25, someone was left out. But it will always track to the number that places the most women.

I do have to brag just a tiny bit...DG was the one who got the 37! YEA!

This, of course, is oversimplified but I hope it helps make sense of the quota system for you. Let me know if you have further questions.

Titchou, I REALLY appreciate the explanation.

When I pledged Beta Nu in 1973, I didn't go to any events from any other group. No one was concerned about maximizing anything, and on bid day, some women got 5 bids and some got none. To be honest, I'm not sure what Panhel even did.

But then, during my college career I don't think we had more than 20-22 sisters at a time, and the largest chapter on campus probably didn't break 30. Total was something like 80, so we never even bothered learning what it meant. It wasn't until years afterward that I noticed the Anchora listing those chapters who were at quota/total and began being confused.

I still detest the conventional rush system, but I'm starting to understand it better.

Ah, Beta Nu in the '70s. Things are much different there now. They have a new house just this past year.

I certainly understand, but the system has developed over decades and is very efficient at sorting out a large number of women in a short period of time. Anybody who thought men were competitive has never been through formal sorority recruitment!:rolleyes:

But thank God for COB!:p

Yep. Many of my sisters are very familiar with that house :). Actually, I hope to visit at Homecoming this year; I haven't been back in 20 years. And they have over 80 sisters now.

I'm not convinced "sorting out a large number of women in a short period of time" is a good thing -- but I also recognize I'm in the minority, I'm biased by my experiences, and my world view doesn't exactly support that type of membership selection. Thank god for diversity, eh? And thanks to my sisters for explaining instead of the responses I got on other threads some time back.

Oooh...not a good thing....

I was told tonight that Beta Iota (Purdue) pledged 41 women! Elsewhere on GC it looks like quota was 37 or 38 so yeah for them!!

All I can say is....THANK GOD THEY GOT RID OF HAND BID MATCHING!!!! I used to hear horror stories about all-nighters and such that went forever!