Guaranteed Placement, any thoughts?

[Nhfulmer]

It has been some time since I participated in bid matching and they were just beginning to implement "quota plus" at that time. The GLO I advised was the smallest and the weakest on that campus at the time and it seemed to me that the system did nothing to help us and everything to make the larger groups keep growing.

It has always been my opinion that recruitment (rush) should be a process where both the PNM's and the sororities mutually "cut" and eventually should reach a point where the PNM has found a "home" where she is wanted. Just because a girl is on the final bid list doesn't mean that she will receive a bid from that group -- she may be the last name on the second list.

While I value my membership, I knew when I began the process that there was a chance I either would not get the group I wanted or even not get a bid at all -- it was a chance I was willing to take! I can only think of one thing worse than not getting a bid and that is being in a group where I was not wanted.

It may sound cruel but everyone will not get a bid and that experience is just one more that will prepare them for the "real world".