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Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie
This.
If quota was 50, and you SIPed ABC sorority and did not get a bid, then you were not on their list of the top 50 girls they wanted (also called a 'first bid list'). If you had ranked all of the sororities where you attended pref parties (called 'maximizing your options') but were not high enough on any sorority's bid list to get a bid, then you would be added on to one of those sororities as an extra new member ('quota addition or QA'). Depending on your Panhellenic's recruitment policy, you might have gotten an 'extra' bid to any of your choices (some schools give you your first choice, some schools add QAs to the smallest chapters, some have other ways of figuring it out). Getting to be a QA is a reward for PNMs who have an open mind and rank all of their pref sororities, but would not have gotten a bid otherwise because they were not high enough on any chapter's list.
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I'm really dumb with all this and was confused when talking about quota with a sister from another chapter where I helped with recruitment. She tried to explain this to me because I had a PNM just go through recruitment that needed clarification. Needless to say, I think I was pretty useless. So, please help me understand.
If you rank the sororities like this:
(1.) ABC
(2.) DEF
(3.) GHI
and you maximize all your options by ranking all three and NOT just ranking two, then what does it mean if you get GHI? If you would have ranked it like (1.) ABC and (2.) DEF, would you have gotten ABC or DEF? Meaning, if you got (3.) GHI because you maximized all your options though you ranked it last, does that mean you were not high enough on the bid list for ABC and DEF and if you would have completely written off GHI, you would have not gotten a bid at all? I had a young woman ask me something about ranking like this that just went through recruitment at a school I won't name. I didn't know how to answer her. Thoughts?