How does your school handle bidless PNMs on bid day?

[KSUViolet06]

The bid day thread got me to thinking about this. How does your school let girls know that they haven't been matched? Is there any sort of counseling or support available for them? I'm not talking about girls who are released along the way, but those girls who go all the way through, and don't receive bids (although feedback from those released before that is welcome).

The way my school handled it was somewhat good, but I think it could be better.

After preference parties, PNMs are brought back to the Student Center by bus. Each Rho Chi group is assigned a different room in the Student Center to sit in. They wait for something like 6 hours (they bring LOTS of homework and the Rho Chi's have movies and food) until bids have been matched. Once the bid cards are ready, the Rho Chi's take their groups down to the Greek Life office to get their bid envelopes.

So somewhere in all that sitting and waiting, the Panhellenic VP of Recruitment asks all of the Rho Chi's to go and get the girls in their groups that didn't match (if there are any). One by one, the girls go into a room in the office with their 2 PX's and they tell her that she didn't get a bid.

She gets a few minutes to cry/call mom/whatever. The grad assistant is in there to answer any questions. The PX's go back into the room and get the girl's stuff so she doesn't have to see her groupmates still sitting in there. She goes back to her dorm.

I think they try to make it private and that's nice. But I'm sure it still hurts, especially if they are in a freshman dorm where sometimes half of your floor is rushing. They have to go back and be alone because all the girls on your wing are at Bid Night. Then there's Monday morning where you get to see all the Bid Night shirts around campus and in your classes.