advice needed

[NOLA25]

My daughter just went through recruitment at Alabama. Before pref night, each PNM was given a booklet (Preference Primer). It states if you are invited to one pref party and you place one choice on your pref card, you have maximized your options and you will receive a bid from that chapter. If you are invited to two pref parties and you place those two choices on your pref card, you will receive a bid from one of those two chapters. If your are invited to 3 pref parties and and you place those three choices on your pref card, you will receive a bid from one of those chapters. You are guaranteed a bid if you have maximized your options in any of these situations.

[exlurker]

Originally Posted by NOLA25

My daughter just went through recruitment at Alabama. Before pref night, each PNM was given a booklet (Preference Primer). It states if you are invited to one pref party and you place one choice on your pref card, you have maximized your options and you will receive a bid from that chapter. If you are invited to two pref parties and you place those two choices on your pref card, you will receive a bid from one of those two chapters. If your are invited to 3 pref parties and and you place those three choices on your pref card, you will receive a bid from one of those chapters. You are guaranteed a bid if you have maximized your options in any of these situations.

Very interesting, NOLA25. That "Preference Primer" information sounds like the way I personally think guaranteed matching should work -- but I know that campuses can and do operate differently. I would encourage you to post the information in this thread, too:

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=89527

(It’s the one entitled “Gaurenteed matching” in the main “Recruitment” forum.)

[ZTA72]

I know nothing about COB, but since you asked for advice, I will put forward the same advice that I gave my daughters when they went through rush.

" When you are talking about being greek, only speak positively, don't make any negative comments to ANYONE about a particular group, you never know who is listening or who is related to who(m) ".

We are a military family and have lived in many different environments.

My daughters apparently heeded this advice and it has served them well.
Please feel free to PM me with any questions.

ZTA72

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

By what authority? I agree that the college PANHELLENIC (meaning the actives and their chapters) is bound by those rules, since the constituent GLOs have all agreed to follow the rules and could pull the charters of the chapters if they had wet rush. But if I'm the dean of students at the University of Michigan, and I decide to hire Jane Doe to be the Greek Advisor, then Jane Doe works for me and for the State of Michigan. Where would NPC get the power to control what Jane says? She has never agreed to follow their rules or be under their jurisdiction.

NPC has authority only to the extent that its constituent members agree in advance to cooperate and follow its rules. It has no power to control what outside players do. Note, for example, that a few years ago, the president of Princeton sent a letter to the whole freshman class saying that GLOs are bad and detrimental and urging students not to join them. I'm willing to bet that this went against some NPC policy. But NPC does not get to control what Princeton employees tell Princeton students about sorority recruitment.

You are correct. If the Greek Life office posted that recs are needed, the NPC could get pissed, but they couldn't compel them to change anything.

Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

I think what people should keep in mind about recs and the SEC is that going to a system that downplayed them would probably actually be worse for the unknown or out-of-state girls. At least now there's a chance that a member from the girl's hometown can get the chapter to take a look at her. Without recs, it would be closer to exclusively based on who the girls in the chapter already knew personally before recruitment, and that would leave even more PNMs out in the cold (or heat if we consider the actual recruitment environment).

This is true. Someone said earlier in this thread that women should be grown-up enough to do their research. I spoke to the sorority women I knew (mom, her friends, a teacher) before rushing, and they NEVER mentioned recs, because they all rushed at schools where they were not needed. Even if I had gone off to an SEC school, it would not occur to me to go research something online when I had information from personal contacts.