How does your school handle bidless PNMs on bid day?

[ForeverRoses]

I don't think garanteed placement means wherever a PNM wants to go, however I also remember during rush, it was drilled into our heads that anyone we invited to pref had better be someone we wanted on our lawn on bid day. The way my school worked, after pref all the houses ranked the girls on a first, second and third bid list- no one was really "cut" after pref. So theoretically, even someone on our third bidlist could end up getting a bid from us. So I don't see it as too much of a stretch for garanteed placement if you maximize your options all through rush (I don't agree with someone only going to one pref even if they were invited to 3 just so that they would get a garanteed bid from that one house).

[exlurker]

To clarify – I was thinking of systems like the ones 33girl, Audrey3566, and ForeverRoses have described. As 33girl points out, there’s no guarantee that the PNM will want to accept the bid she is offered. (However, I think there’s a difference – slight, but a difference -- between no bid at all after pref and a bid to a chapter a PNM doesn’t like.)

33girl: “There are some systems that have guarantees a woman will be OFFERED a bid if she plays by the rules & maximizes her options. It doesn't guarantee that it will be to a sorority she wants anything to do with.”

Audrey3566: “I can't imagine any system with "guaranteed placement" wherever a PNM wanted to go , but I've seen ones where if you play by all the rules and you don't drop groups or SIP and you make it to pref party, you will receive a bid to a group that you preffed.”

ForeverRoses: “I don't think guaranteed placement means wherever a PNM wants to go, however I also remember during rush, it was drilled into our heads that anyone we invited to pref had better be someone we wanted on our lawn on bid day. The way my school worked, after pref all the houses ranked the girls on a first, second and third bid list- no one was really "cut" after pref. So theoretically, even someone on our third bidlist could end up getting a bid from us. So I don't see it as too much of a stretch for guaranteed placement if you maximize your options all through rush (I don't agree with someone only going to one pref even if they were invited to 3 just so that they would get a guaranteed bid from that one house).”