From Pref Night to Bid Day: What happens?

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Originally Posted by Titchou

Used to when it was done by hand, the first bid list (# of quota) was in alpha order. Now, with the advent of the computer, the first list doesn't have to be in alpha order even with hand bid matching - even though I think it's easier to do in alpha order. The second list is in order of preference and always has been. And it's easier to keep the cards in alpha order as you've been doing that all along with the first bid list and some groups may still be on their first list and some on their second. I tried to copy and paste from the MOI but it's about 3 pages long and just didn't work well. But suffice it to say, the women are matched to the chapter's list.

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Depends on quota and how many of ZZ's top choices chose them. If quota is 39, but one of the women on ZZ's first list matches elsewhere, Amy moves onto their first list. Her choice (ZZ over CC) trumps the fact that CC wants her more than ZZ does.

THANK YOU Titchou and DBB for helping me out here.

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

I think discussion of how it was back in the old days just muddies the water over how it happens now. Suffice it to say there was much hand-wringing, clutching at pearls and hijinks going on that now can't happen. I think a lot of the negative chatter about a struggling chapter goes away because there's really no one except the RFM expert who might now that ABC chapter didn't get a single person from their first list, or whatever. It's more clinical and less open to gossip. Not that there is NOT gossip, but I'd bet that more than a little of it is rumor and not fact.

Ooopsies! My bad. I know better than to step into the quicksand that is RFM (at least to me it is akin to Calculus and I'm not ever going there).

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

So if I have this straight... let's say, to keep things simple, that quota is 10. Then ABC would have 10 girls on their first bid list, in whatever order they desired. I'll do alphabetical, since that's what everyone is discussing:

Amber
Brenda
Cassie
Danielle
Emily
Felicia
Grace
Haley
Irene
Jackie

Assuming that they all listed ABC as their #1 choice, then they would all receive bids to ABC. The end. If, on the other hand, Cassie, Felicia, and Jackie all matched with DEF, then there would be 3 spots left, which would require a jump to ABC's second bid list.. which would be in the order that ABC preferred to bid them. So if the first 5 people on the list were:

1 Stephanie
2 Tanya
3 Alyssa
4 Melissa
5 Laura

.. and Stephanie matched to ABC, she would make new member #8. If Tanya matched with DEF, then they would move on to Alyssa, and so on and so forth until they reached 10 new members.

So the order of PNMs is irrelevant for the first bid list, but it's clearly important for all of the bid lists after that.

Correct?

Whew. Got it. I forever swear off any commenting on this entire business. For the duration I shall be resting on a chaise, sipping a beverage while being fanned by gorgeous men with 8 packs. Peel me a grape.

ETA: OP, Old_Row is not accusing you of anything; she is making a recommendation that you would be wise to consider seriously. Old_Row is not That Kind Of Girl.