PinkBabygirl10's Informal Sorority Recruitment Thread

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Doing it that way also leads to the problem of knowing where you are on the bidlist. I'd hate knowing I wasn't good enough for the first list but got a bid because I was a little further down.

Exactly. And then PNMs might not want to take a snap bid because they don't want to feel like "sloppy seconds".

[Drolefille]

Exactly.

Or I could picture the split in a pledge class if you had really bitchy girls. The A group and the B group. Or anything. It's way better that no one really knows where on the list they are, and even the members don't have a concrete idea of where girls are, they're just thrilled to meet the newbies on bidday! All at the same time.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Okay, while we are creatively restructuring recruitment, how about this idea:

PNMs rank.
Sororities receive PNMs' rankings.
Sororities choose X number of bids to give out (where X=quota calculated as number of PNMs/number of chapters)

[Buttonz]

My issue with the way things are done is when the PNM's have no say...meaning they have to keep on going back to chapters that they aren't interested in if it means without them, they wouldn't have a full schedule, and without a full schedule if they were able to have one, they aren't promised a bid. I would like to see that done away with.

[ms_gwyn]

i'm coming in late, but I wanted to say congratulations!

[AnatraAmore]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Okay, while we are creatively restructuring recruitment, how about this idea:

PNMs rank.
Sororities receive PNMs' rankings.
Sororities choose X number of bids to give out (where X=quota calculated as number of PNMs/number of chapters)

My only concern with this would be, would sisters see exactly how the PNMs rank? Or would there be a middle party? (Gamma Rho Chis or GA) Because I know that it's always a concern at our school that sisters will find out the PNMs ranked their group 2 or 3 on Pref lists and sisters being less than friendly to some of those girls...

[FSUZeta]

sangers, if you are a member of an npc sorority, your alumnae and the greek life advisor should be matching bids during formal recruitment-even if matching is done by a computer. unless that information is taken out of the bid matching area and shared with collegiate members(and if should not be) then the chapter should not know how their new member class ranked their choices.

[FSUZeta]

oops, my bad, just goes to show that sometimes i am not adept at multitasking!!

in the scenario that you quoted, then the members or at least the officers or those appointed to the task would know how the pnms ranked. reading that i guessed that in that scenario, the sorority would only extend bids to those pnms who had ranked them first.

[UGAalum94]

Walk me through why it's bad to have to go to a full schedule of parties even if you aren't really that interested in the groups.

The way it seems to me, you only get bids from the groups you weren't crazy about if your choice groups don't want you bad enough.

If you know that you only want a bid from a few, then only put the ones that you want on the bid card. The only thing you lose is a chance at being a quota additions, right?

I also don't totally understand the benefits of being able to get more than one bid. Is it the chance to keep thinking it over? Or is it that you don't want groups to have a quota? Your want them to be able to take whoever they want without limit?

(Is anybody really truthful about why people get snap bids? Nobody actually says, "Well, we wanted some other people more, but since they picked other groups, we now want you" or "we know that you cut us to pref someplace else, but we saw that you were still not matched. We really want to make quota or reach chapter total, and now that you know you're not too good for us, we thought we'd give it another shot.")