Iota Zeta Recruitment

tcsparky · #1 10-04-2006, 11:15 PM

OK, winding down now. The chapter invited back 40 women, and 39 accepted. That makes a 98% acceptance rate!!! Whoo hooo!!!

The room was the lobby of the old Auditorium. Black plastic had been hung over all of the plate glass windows by Panhel, making it dark and evening-like. With the tea lights and candles for decoration, along with scads of pink roses, the room looked pretty nice. There were three parties. The ceremony was wonderful. A sophomore spoke about joining last semester, and a senior spoke about being away from the chapter while in London last year, and dreading graduation because it meant she would have to leave the chapter again. The ladies looked beautiful in their black clothing, very elegant and lady-like. I was SO PROUD of them the entire night. They showed real class.

For various reasons (PM me if you want details here), we ended up with 32 attendees.

The chapter was told about an hour after the last party was over that 50 women had signed bid cards, leaving total at 16. We nervously created our first and second bid lists, then at 12:00 AM our MVP left with the ELC to input our selections to "the computer".

tcsparky · #2 10-04-2006, 11:17 PM

I am proud to announce that the Iota Zeta Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta welcomed 18 New Members into their Sisterhood!!!!!

They took quota plus 2 Quota additions!!!!

They are now one over total!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amanda6035 · #3 10-04-2006, 11:31 PM

HOORAY! Yay for Iota Zeta!

Okay...I have another question....simply because I dont understand....

If quota is 16...and you got 18....how many girls is the chapter allowed to put on their list of "We want *these* girls"? Were you allowed to put 16 down, and then the B list you referred to grabbed the other 2? I mean, like, for example just throwing out a number here - if 25 girls listed Alpha Xi as their first choice, and assumiong that you guys wanted all 25 of those girls, how does the system "limit" how many you actually get? I understand the quote process. I DONT understand quote PLUS...

Does my question even make sense?

tcsparky · #4 10-05-2006, 07:10 AM

I'll see if I can make sense of it for you (you may also want to refer to the Quota additions thread in the Recruitment forum or to the "green book" for additional help).

We had 50 women sign bid cards. There are three organizations. If Quota is 16, then there are 2 women "left over" (50/3=16. with 2 remainder). The two "extra" women were then placed with a chapter with whom they matched who they listed on their bid cards and who had them on their bid list, providing they did not SIP. Apparently, that was us!!!

We turned in 2 bid lists: 1st list had the first 16 women in alphabetical order. The second list had another 16 women ranked. Everyone who we invited to Preference was on one of our two lists, excluding women who dropped out of Recruitment. This *could* mean that our second bid list had 20 women on it. It can be longer (or shorter) than the first. A chapter will receive women with whom they matched, beginning with those on the first list, then continuing through the second list until we reach 16. At that point we wait until everyone else has reached Quota, or until it becomes obvious that they won't- no matter how many times we go through the cards, then unmatched women become eligible for Quota additions (as long as they did not SIP).

Women who dropped out of Recruitment at any point, and women we invited back but who did not attend our party, are eligible for snap bidding. Snap bidding would be used for us to reach Quota.

If I have this wrong, or have made it even more unclear, someone please jumo in and help!!

I am also glad to say that every woman who signed a bid card received a bid!!! There are 50 fabulous new members in our Greek system!!!

AZ-AlphaXi · #5 10-05-2006, 10:14 AM

Tresa ... great explaination ... and a big CONGRATULATIONS to Iota Zeta for a well executed recruitment and their new members!!!