At my undergraduate school, we did have guaranteed bidding...that is if you maximized all your options and ranked all your houses after pref, you were guaranteed a bid, even if you only preffed at 1 house. If you were released by everyone before pref, that was a different story, but I dont think that happened too too often. Here was the problem, though......you ended up with some houses taking quota plus and other houses not making it by a long shot.......this was because there was NO panhellenic unity at my school.....dirty rushing was rampant, and so was trash talking between chapters.....and because of this A LOT of girls would drop if they didn't get invited back to the "top three"....so groups that are popluar groups to pref at end up getting quota plus...smaooer chapters get smaller. What's worse is that we had deferred recruitment so that the PNMs have a whole semester of fraternity parties to go too and become well schooled on the stereotypes......it is virtually impossible for a house to move up in status.......but enough for now
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