Random: Recruitment

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

But it is not being "cross-cut". There is this myth out there that if you are on a chapters top bid list, but you put them as #2, and the group you have as #1 puts you on their second bid list, you will end up without a bid (assuming only two chapters on pref night). That is just not the case. If you end up without a bid, it is because you were too low on BOTH chapters' bid lists. I know that is a a harder thing for PNM's to face, but as we discussed above, if you are on a chapter's first bid list, you stay there until you are matched there or elsewhere.

Isn't that what "cross-cut" refers to? The PNM is cut (released) from all of her preference chapters because she never moved onto any of the chapters' first bid list. Thus she was *cut across the board* - i.e. cross-cut.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by TSteven

Isn't that what "cross-cut" refers to? The PNM is cut (released) from all of her preference chapters because she never moved onto any of the chapters' first bid list. Thus she was *cut across the board* - i.e. cross-cut.

No...that's just CUT.

Cross cut is when the PNM went to two prefs, and then supposedly gets cut because of the order she ranked them in.

[lyrelyre]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

No...that's just CUT.

Cross cut is when the PNM went to two prefs, and then supposedly gets cut because of the order she ranked them in.

It's not cut, so much as failing to match.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by lyrelyre

It's not cut, so much as failing to match.

You say tomato, I say tomahto...either way, they're bidless.

[ForeverRoses]

hmm- I remember a girl from my dorm freshman year would tell anyone that would listen that she was cross-cut from her first two choices and that's why she ended up where she was (her sorority was good, but not a "top tier"). We always just thought she was trying to make herself feel better, so we would ignore her. Now I wonder if she really was cross-cut. Hmm.

Either way, she was annoying.

[lyrelyre]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

You say tomato, I say tomahto...either way, they're bidless.

Not necessarily. If they have maximized their options and the campus guarantees bids they will be placed. That is what recruitment advisors do at bid matching.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by lyrelyre

Not necessarily. If they have maximized their options and the campus guarantees bids they will be placed. That is what recruitment advisors do at bid matching.

We're trying to explain cross-cut to TSteven, who is a guy. You get into the whole bid-matching, maximized their options, guaranteed bids, etc thing and it makes their head spin and their brain shut down. Therefore, if a PNM is too low on all of her pref's bidlists (not getting into university spesfics, such as guaranteed bids, etc) she is cut.

[SWTXBelle]

Cross-cut as I use it ocurs (or used to) when a girl is ranked on both (or all) sororities' SECOND bid list. It is possible that both of her pref parties rank her on their second bid list, and if she doesn't advance far enough in either one - she's bidless.
Let's hope with all the improvements this is now no longer common.

[violetpretty]

Correct me if I am wrong, but you get your first choice unless they fill quota before they get to your name on the list. It doesn't matter if you are a legacy to your second or third choice and therefore on their first bid lists because they give you your first choice unless they can't.

There was a girl in my chapter that was all like "Oh, I didn't get a bid from XYZ top chapter because I was at the top of Sigma Kappa's list." Lies. You didn't get a bid from XYZ because you were at the bottom of their list and they made quota before they got to your name.

[TSteven]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

We're trying to explain cross-cut to TSteven, who is a guy. You get into the whole bid-matching, maximized their options, guaranteed bids, etc thing and it makes their head spin and their brain shut down. Therefore, if a PNM is too low on all of her pref's bidlists (not getting into university spesfics, such as guaranteed bids, etc) she is cut.

For what it is worth, I'm a numbers and statistics guy, so I understand bid matching as it applies in the general sense. (Bid matching may varry campus to campus.)

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Cross-cut as I use it ocurs (or used to) when a girl is ranked on both (or all) sororities' SECOND bid list. It is possible that both of her pref parties rank her on their second bid list, and if she doesn't advance far enough in either one - she's bidless.

Let's hope with all the improvements this is now no longer common.

This (SWTXBelle's post) has been my understanding of what it meant to be cross-cut. (see following quote)

Originally Posted by TSteven

The PNM is cut (released) from all of her preference chapters because she never moved onto any of the chapters' first bid list. Thus she was *cut across the board* - i.e. cross-cut.

[lyrelyre]

Originally Posted by JessSigKap

Correct me if I am wrong, but you get your first choice unless they fill quota before they get to your name on the list. It doesn't matter if you are a legacy to your second or third choice and therefore on their first bid lists because they give you your first choice unless they can't.

There was a girl in my chapter that was all like "Oh, I didn't get a bid from XYZ top chapter because I was at the top of Sigma Kappa's list." Lies. You didn't get a bid from XYZ because you were at the bottom of their list and they made quota before they got to your name.

You are correct. Although the girl may not actually have been lying, because very few people actually understand bid matching.

On the campus where I advise a girl was matched as a quota addition to a house that was her 3rd choice. She also happened to be the very last PNM on the chapter's bid list. At a Panhellenic event early in the year I overheard her telling one of her pledge sisters that she got her third choice because she was first on their bid list. It was difficult not to say, "You got your third choice because all three matched to quota before they reached your name, then your top 2 also passed on you during quota additions, and your third choice was forced to take you because they had not maxed out on quota additions."

Wow, I'm mean.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Cross-cut as I use it ocurs (or used to) when a girl is ranked on both (or all) sororities' SECOND bid list. It is possible that both of her pref parties rank her on their second bid list, and if she doesn't advance far enough in either one - she's bidless.
Let's hope with all the improvements this is now no longer common.

Exactly. The point is that PNM's end up in their third choice, or bidless, and they think it would have ended differently if they had ranked the orgs differently. This is simply not true.

PNM's should rank their chapters in order of preference. I can't think of a single situation where this would not be true.

[AOII Angel]

It's amazing how many girls don't have enough sense to keep their mouths shut! My opinion has always been, if you want to have the best experience, let everyone think your bid was the one you wanted all along. No use advertising to everyone that you got "stuck" in a chapter you don't like. Why even join?

[Soliloquy]

Sorry to bump this, but I'm still kind of confused on the "cross-cut myth."

I was talking to a recent alum about getting a rec and she told me how a girl in her pledge class got cross-cut, I also heard this from another girl who is a current active.

So according to all of the replies, cross-cutting is really just being cut because you were ranked too low on the list and your name just wasn't reached by the time ABC reached quota? Or something like that?

Obviously, there is nothing a PNM can do about this, but it's just another thing for me to worry about

[FSUZeta]

more pnms are offered bids than are cross cut, so the odds are in your favor. don't worry unnecessarily.