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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
I tell every PNM who hears a "bid matching mistake" story from sorority members about why they didn't get a bid to ignore it because usually it's never the truth. They weren't there and most of the time, they don't really understand bid matching anyway.
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Exactly. Regardless of who told you (epchick) that you were the "35th person," there's really no such thing. It's kinda hard to explain it all in detail here about mutual selection. Lists can be matched alphabetically or not, but there is no special order in which Panhellenic organizes them in 1-35 fashion. PM me if this doesn't make sense, and I'll try to go into more detail.
Quota Additions are allowed by NPC, but each individual campus Panhellenic must choose to participate - it is not a Unanimous Agreement. If your campus doesn't have a history of doing it, it makes sense that they didn't do it for your recruitment either. If your campus was using the new RFM procedures (which for two chapters on campus I doubt they were), the Specialist would have placed you at your top ranking chapter, assuming both chapters matched Quota.
To say that you were placed as a COR bid means that either your chapter was under Total even after recruitment (quite common) or one of the women who matched to them during recruitment declined her bid before her pledging ceremony (also quite common). If neither of these things are the case, chances are they decided to go ahead and make you a QA after the fact. Smaller campuses can make decisions like that when they are in the best interest of the PNM and the Greek System.
I know that you are curious about what happened in your situation, and I think it's great that you are trying to understand the process in more detail, but don't count on getting straight answers from collegians in your chapter or anyone on your campus unless they were involved in bid matching. AND even then, that process is intensely private, and the advisors involved are trusted not to speak of it.
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