From Pref Night to Bid Day: What happens?

[Titchou]

OMG! Give it up, ladies!

In the one I mentioned, the group who pledged all their first list graciously offered to take all the ones who were "left over" after the matching was done since they all had put them first. We demurred and said that we stand by the NPC QA requirement - 5% of quota only as QAs. That ended up leaving one girl not matching when out of the blue, group #3 (whom she had put second and who was not on their original bid list at all) suddenly "found" her on their list! Strange things happened in hand bid matching sessions.

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by Titchou

OMG! Give it up, ladies!

In the one I mentioned, the group who pledged all their first list graciously offered to take all the ones who were "left over" after the matching was done since they all had put them first. We demurred and said that we stand by the NPC QA requirement - 5% of quota only as QAs. That ended up leaving one girl not matching when out of the blue, group #3 (whom she had put second and who was not on their original bid list at all) suddenly "found" her on their list! Strange things happened in hand bid matching sessions.

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[TSteven]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Actually, it depends. For instance, if quota is 10 and all 10 of those women plus one more lists XYZ first (and those are the ONLY women listing them as #1), then the 11th one from an alpha standpoint will lose out....but could be a QA under RFM. Under the old method, that would remain to be seen on the way everything else fleshed out. Just one of many reasons why RFM is better...it takes these things into account.

Maybe I’m misreading this, but if 11 women ranked XYZ first and quota is 10, wouldn’t only 10 women be listed - in alpha order - on XYZ’s first bid list? And as such, the woman who did not make XYZ’s first bid list (i.e. the 11th woman) would be ranked on their second bid list.

So if this is true, then it shouldn’t matter where she fell alphabetically as she was never on XYZ’s first bid list and XYZ met quota before it had to move to the second bid list.

[WCsweet<3]

Originally Posted by TSteven

Maybe I’m misreading this, but if 11 women ranked XYZ first and quota is 10, wouldn’t only 10 women be listed - in alpha order - on XYZ’s first bid list? And as such, the woman who did not make XYZ’s first bid list (i.e. the 11th woman) would be ranked on their second bid list.

So if this is true, then it shouldn’t matter where she fell alphabetically as she was never on XYZ’s first bid list and XYZ met quota before it had to move to the second bid list.

This is how I understood it.

[BraveMaroon]

Originally Posted by TSteven

Maybe I’m misreading this, but if 11 women ranked XYZ first and quota is 10, wouldn’t only 10 women be listed - in alpha order - on XYZ’s first bid list? And as such, the woman who did not make XYZ’s first bid list (i.e. the 11th woman) would be ranked on their second bid list.

So if this is true, then it shouldn’t matter where she fell alphabetically as she was never on XYZ’s first bid list and XYZ met quota before it had to move to the second bid list.

I think the alphabetical order may be misleading.

Presumably, the sororities have an idea, even if it's just an educated guess, as to what quota will be. They'll put the most effort into the order of that estimated number plus a cushion. Because they don't want a girl they would just die without to be their #11 who slips through the cracks any more than that girl does. Based on what I remember, alpha had little to do with any position on the list.

For example, Laura Legacy will probably trump Amy Aardvark.