Random: Recruitment

[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.

[TSteven]

From The University of Kentucky Fraternities & Sororities Affairs Office

Panhellenic Bid Matching Training - A slide presentation explaining the Panhellenic bid matching process

Handy Dandy Guide to Bid-Matching

[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.

[susan314]

Originally Posted by lyrelyre

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.

Nah - actually saying it would have been mean. Thinking it was a natural reaction to a girl who was making a condescending remark to one of her own pledge sisters!