A Mad Men re-rushing story

[DeltaBetaBaby]

As in, it's been removed from the Green Book altogether? That seems like a bad idea.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

As in, it's been removed from the Green Book altogether? That seems like a bad idea.

That's why you've seen huge numbers of QAs over the past year.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

That's why you've seen huge numbers of QAs over the past year.

Oh, alright. I assumed that campuses were just ignoring it or guaranteeing bids or whatever, but your explanation makes more sense. That's really too bad; it's so hard to come back from being a smaller chapter.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Oh, alright. I assumed that campuses were just ignoring it or guaranteeing bids or whatever, but your explanation makes more sense. That's really too bad; it's so hard to come back from being a smaller chapter.

I know what you mean. I think the rationale is to maximize placement. There's no free lunch, unfortunately. Placing more PNMs does not always benefit the smaller chapters. It can, but not always.

[33girl]

To sum it all up (LOL) I thought the same thing that AOIIAngel did - that QAs are based on PNM preference and that it benefits the PNMs first, chapter second. If you really could QA dump people into the smallest chapter, there wouldn't be a smallest chapter.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by 33girl

To sum it all up (LOL) I thought the same thing that AOIIAngel did - that QAs are based on PNM preference and that it benefits the PNMs first, chapter second. If you really could QA dump people into the smallest chapter, there wouldn't be a smallest chapter.

That was the rule used on my campus...smallest total chapter size. I don't recall if it was in the GB or not. It didn't matter much, though, because there were, at the time, 14 chapters that regularly took quota and 5 that didn't.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by 33girl

To sum it all up (LOL) I thought the same thing that AOIIAngel did - that QAs are based on PNM preference and that it benefits the PNMs first, chapter second. If you really could QA dump people into the smallest chapter, there wouldn't be a smallest chapter.

Just because a small chapter makes quota and gets a lot of QAs one year doesn't mean that all of them show up to bid day. It doesn't mean all of them complete the NM period and initiate. It doesn't mean that all of them stay in the chapter until graduation. In order to be a QA, a PNM has to rank said smaller chapter, though it happens frequently that they rank because they feel forced to, so it is more likely that these PNMs turned NMs aren't going to be members for the rest of their time at college, as compared to PNMs who are ranking said smaller chapter because they want it.

[honeychile]

It's been a couple years since I've involved with bid matching, but if a large GLO wanted more than 5% of the QAa, the smaller GLOs had to okay it as "for the good of the system. Even then, a case had to be made.