A junior transfer recruitment story!!!

[lauralaylin]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Well, it's really guaranteed matching after preference if you rank all your choices, not "sign up for recruitment and we'll make sure you get a bid somewhere" because of course, a PNM can get cross-released before preference. It's an incentive to discourage suiciding, to match more women who "played fair".

Actually, I know of a school that guarantees a bid to anyone who maximizes her options. If she is dropped by everyone before pref, the PNM is invited back to her top choices.

[OtterXO]

Originally Posted by lauralaylin

Actually, I know of a school that guarantees a bid to anyone who maximizes her options. If she is dropped by everyone before pref, the PNM is invited back to her top choices.

Wow that's something I've never heard before! So at that school if there is a PNM your house doesn't "mesh with" you have to cut them the first or second night or risk being forced to give them a bid?

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by lauralaylin

Actually, I know of a school that guarantees a bid to anyone who maximizes her options. If she is dropped by everyone before pref, the PNM is invited back to her top choices.

Yeah, I know Tufts does that but I was trying not to derail.

[IlliniMeg]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Yeah, I know Tufts does that but I was trying not to derail.

I have been present at that bid matching and it was an experience to say the least!!! Also because it was by hand! we had a chapter that was under quota, a chapter that made quota plus a few, and a chapter that made quota plus a lot. I'm really sketchy on the process it was an emotionally draining week and I remember being thankful I didn't mess anything up. I started to explain it but it was too confusing but essentially, after you've matched all the chapter's bid lists with pnms - any remaining who did not match (there were three chapters and pnms could go to three pref parties, but a lot of pnms only put down 2 out of 3 sororities on their pref cards because they didn't want to be in the 3rd chapter) got placed with their first choice.

The story was that years prior a parent of a pnm who had been cut from recruitment, called and raised a such a ruckus (or threats) that they put it into their policy that all pnms get a bid.

I have a friend who went to Kansas State who said they do the same thing - as long as the women do everything right I.E. not suicide. At Tufts even women who suicide get their first choice after the fact.