bid question
 

I've searched the forum for the answer to this question and I can't seem to find it. Sorry if the answer seems obvious:

Ok, so say Susie Q goes to Pref Night at sororities XYZ and ABC. When she ranks them, she puts XYZ as her first choice and ABC as her second choice. When the two sororities rank her, they both put her on their first-choice list. So when she gets her bid on Bid Day, will it only say XYZ, because Susie put them as her first choice AND they put her as her first choice? or, will she get bids from both XYZ and ABC, and then have to turn one down? Again, sorry if the answer seems obvious!

If she is on the first bid list of both, she will get one bid: XYZ

You will only get one bid during formal recruitment.

There are some campi that have a more relaxed style of recruitment (some use it all the time and others just during informal recruitment in the opposite semester from formal recruitment) that may allow PNMs to receive more than one bid. In this case, however, you would not have a pref card to fill out. You show up on bid day, get your bids, pick the one you want if there are multiple. Most campi, however, use the pref card/ one bid method. It is more exact to allow maximal number of bids to be distributed. The other method means that each chapter can give out a limited number of bids. If all groups like the same 10 girls and each gives their ten bids to those same girls, none of the groups will have quota at the end and will have to find other women to bid. You can see the problem this may pose at competitive campi.

Sorry to be picky, but it's campuses, not campi.

Actually, according to this, either way is correct.

In Latin, the plural form of campus IS campi...but campuses is still correct English. It's all a matter of which word you like better.

I stand corrected

I actually use campuses more often in normal speech, but changed it all to campi. Glad to know that I don't sound ignorant when I fail to use campi!

The bid matching process is a bit complicated (and thankfully nowadays it's done by computer), but a PNM will receive only ONE bid.

Is it possible to not get any bids?

YES.

At some schools, that answer is no...If you go to a school that participates in the Release Method of recruitment AND you participate fully in all rounds AND you return the maximum number of parties on pref night, you will have a bid at one of the houses where you attended pref.

By "Release Method" are you referring to the New Release Figures Methodology? If so, your statement is assuming that the PNM is not dropped by all the chapters, which can happen.

Yes, I am referring to the new release figures and you are right about being dropped by all chapters which is why I put all of those "ifs" and "ands" in my post.

Gotchya - I thought I would point it out in case there was any question :)