How does your school handle bidless PNMs on bid day?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

I am not exactly sure what the green book says about rounding. In this case, no big deal, but on a campus with 10 or more chapters, rounding up could quickly become a problem. It makes more sense to me to round down and then allow QA's (which are limited to 5%, rounded up).

Also, while the best system is to set quota as late as possible, not every campus operates that way. Ideally, you'd set it based on the number of women SIGNING BID CARDS, but most set it as the number attending prefs, and some go even earlier than that.

[AnatraAmore]

Unfortunately, my campus is one of the ones that still sets quota after the round before Prefs. There are only 3 NPC's on my campus and quota is typically between 8 and 10. This might not sound like it could be a problem but, as an example: This year there were 28 women who attended the round before Pref. Quota was set at 9. (Knowing that one girl in this case could be matched as a QA). This sounds great... except that only 22 girls showed up to Preference, which translates to it being impossible for all chapters to make quota. So two chapters made quota and the other took 4 - less than half of quota.

If quota had been set later (either after women accepted invitations to pref or even when women were signing bid cards) then quota would have been 7 or 8 and the 3rd chapter probably would have come much closer to quota.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by sangers

Unfortunately, my campus is one of the ones that still sets quota after the round before Prefs. There are only 3 NPC's on my campus and quota is typically between 8 and 10. This might not sound like it could be a problem but, as an example: This year there were 28 women who attended the round before Pref. Quota was set at 9. (Knowing that one girl in this case could be matched as a QA). This sounds great... except that only 22 girls showed up to Preference, which translates to it being impossible for all chapters to make quota. So two chapters made quota and the other took 4 - less than half of quota.

If quota had been set later (either after women accepted invitations to pref or even when women were signing bid cards) then quota would have been 7 or 8 and the 3rd chapter probably would have come much closer to quota.

I agree, I think it should be women signing bid cards, for the very reason you describe. The problem centers around time to prepare bid lists, I think, at least at larger campuses. I can't think of any other good reason not to do it at the very last minute.

[KSUViolet06]

Thought I'd bring this one back up since it's rush season again.