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Originally posted by JMUduke
this never occured to me before, but who created the computer program to make the pnm's sorority prefs and the actual ABC sorority's bids selectio work together on the computer?? I am a total loser for being interested in this
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The program we used was called "sorush", I think, but I don't remember who created it. (I wonder if they've had to change the name to "sorecruitment"?
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Originally posted by AOIIBrandi
After each round the PNM will get a scantron (if the school is advanced) and she will rank all of the sororities that she went to that day. The scantrons are then fed into the computer program with the sororities' cuts. It then works kind of like bid matching until the parties are full... If a PNM has been invited back to more than the acceptable number of parties for that day she can then choose which party(ies) not to attend but she must attend the max if she has been invited back to at least that many (say there are 7 sororities but you can only go back to 5, and the PNM was invited back to all 7 she would have to cut 2 but could not cut anymore). The only way she can go back to fewer than the allowed number of parties is if she were not invited back to that many. If a PNM does not go back to the maximum houses that she can or all that she has been invited to she will be dismissed from recruitment.
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This must be one of those things that varies from school to school. We never rank ordered the sororities until we filled out our pref cards... we just saw who invited us back at each round, and made any cuts we wanted or were required to make. Then again, there are only 5 sororities... at a school where there are 16 or 17, rank ordering them makes a little more sense.
We also could cut sororities even if doing so brought you under the maximum number for that round. So if you were invited back to 4 sororities for round 2, and you were allowed to go to 3, and you really hated 2 of them, you could drop the 2 you hated and just go to 2 parties, so you didn't have to suffer through a party with a group you disliked. If you did so, you weren't dropped from recruitment, but you became a "bad rushee" and (I believe) ineligible for snap bidding and quota additions (just as if you suicided).