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Originally Posted by aggiemom14
I thought that you were guaranteed placement if you went to all parties you are invited to (up to the maximum) per day. So, if girls get cut from all houses, what happens?
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You are guaranteed placement if you attend all parties to which you are invited, are invited to preference round at one or more chapters, and list all chapters to which you are invited to pref on your preference card.
It is possible, in any invitational round, to receive no invitations. At most large scary recruitments, it's pretty rare to receive no invitations, because the number of invitations handed out by each chapter is carefully calculated based on the number of PNM's and the predicted number of invitations to each chapter that will be accepted.
What we are saying is that, this year, instead of a pool of PNM's divided up among twelve chapters (which is roughly how quota is calculated), there may be some chapters that can't take certain PNM's and so on...in short, it could be a total mess in which last year's data doesn't allow for good prediction of what would happen this year.
As another extreme example, let's say there are 300 BT women and 300 TAMU women. 600 PNM's/12 chapters gives a quota of 50. But let's say that there are 8 chapters that can't take BT. Now you have 8 chapters chasing 300 women, which is 38/chapter, at most.
To be clear, I know nothing about TAMU or whether chapters will take BT women, and I'm totally making up numbers, I'm just saying that there could very well be some math issues, here.
ETA: If you have a daughter who is rushing this year, either BT or not, this is not something you should be too worried about. If formal recruitment happens to shake out badly, then chapters will snap bid or COB afterwards and it should all work out in the end.