2007 UGA Recruitment

[UGAalum94]

CluelessUGAmom,

I understand that from your perspective, you want your daughter matched to her top group. But much of the process is designed to level the playing field for the groups and to some degree for the PNMs.

The ideal recruitment would leave each group at campus with the same sized pledge class, and if possible every girls with her first choice. But it's completely against every girl at her first choice if it will create wild differences in size among the groups.

The point of quota additions is to offer girls who maximize their chances another shot at being placed. Maximizing her options isn't just being willing to list them all and take a bid from one or two: it means she was open to all the groups. If a PNM isn't really willing to be at a particular chapter, she shouldn't list them on her bid list. To list with no intention or desire to join isn't really maximizing options. It kind of violates the idea.

But where a PNM gets placed is also again, about equalizing size among the groups.

Basically, it kind of seems to me that you want her to have her cake and eat it too. Get the benefits of Quota Additions, but also not really have to worry about being placed at any but her favorite group. That's not how it works.

ETA: You are correct in your claim that the structure of recruitment benefits the groups. The NPC has worked hard to develop a system and procedures allowing the maximum number of groups to succeed at any given campus. Sometimes I wonder if it's too much and that we'd be better being more like the IFC groups. But honestly, when you look at the number of girls, at the recruitments who disclose the information, who do get their first preference choice as their group, it really does work well. Girls matched to choice two or three are really in the minority.