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Originally Posted by lifeguardM

Can someone please help me with a question? Just talked to a friend whose daughter is an active in a sorority at UGA. Very interesting story. Daughter's sorority just got their bid list and found out that girls who weren't even invited back for prefs at their house were able to suicide for her sorority and get in. I'm so confused! She said that UGA is doing something called flex.. (I didn't really understand what she meant by that.) Anyway, Panhellenic didn't want girls to be left with without a house at all, so they gave them the sorority they suicided - even though that exact sorority cut them before prefs. Her sorority made above quota, so it wasn't a numbers thing. Can someone please explain this?? I thought a cut was a cut during rush - no going back. Why would UGA do this to their sororities? It's like they are rewarding the girls for suiciding despite the fact that the sorority didn't want them.

Originally Posted by PiPhiERDoc

As far as the bid list goes, chapters can choose to add women to their bid list even if they did not attend the chapter's party. This is often the case if they invite women to their preference and those women elect to go to other chapters, most of the time if the chapter liked those women enough to invite them for preference, they would be delighted to have them in the house.

That being said...its not really a flex list per se for the bid list.

And per NPC rules...a woman who single intentional pref's any house, regardless of whether or not she attended a pref party there, is NOT available for quota additions.

My best guess is that the chapter did not in fact make quota and made snap bids to those women who did not match through regular matching.

Originally Posted by PiPhiERDoc

It's like they are rewarding the girls for suiciding despite the fact that the sorority didn't want them.

And this is simply not possible. No panhellenic could offer a PNM a bid from a chapter without their consent - only the chapter can offer a bid

I think often times a chapter adviser and membership/recruitment chairs will make decisions about who to make snap bids behind the scenes on the day of bid matching that the chapter doesn't know about. While those women who SIP wouldn't be eligible for QA, if they went unmatched they ARE eligible for snap bids or COB.[/QUOTE]

I agree that these were probably snap bids. Nobody, even the recruitment advisor or chapter advisor should know what a young woman put on her bid card so the "fact" that they SIPed is probably rumor or speculation. Panhellenic officers may have that information, but it shouldn't be known to anybody else. Even in the days of hand matching, unless a woman's card went around more than once, we didn't know who else was listed or in what order. I don't believe that women in chapters of almost 200 all know exactly what went on, who was on the bid list, etc. Women can be on the bid list even though they didn't attend pref in some circumstances. I'd chalk this one up to the rumor mill.