Assigning Bigs/Littles

KSUViolet06 · #1 12-07-2006, 07:28 PM

Each new member ranks her top 5 choices.

Each active member ranks her top 5.

The VP attempts to match the lists as best as possible.

DreamfulSpirit · #2 12-07-2006, 11:00 PM

with us, we don't rank people because we don't know everyone yet. active sisters first tell the membership director if they would like to have a little. the membership director collects info about the pledges and those interested in getting a little. the membership director then tries, with the information given, to put together who would be best suited as big's and little's. at the first pledge meeting, the membership director will design a way or play a game that will in the end reveal the bigs and littles to each other.

when i pledged...we played this game where the membership director placed an index card on your back, and you had no idea what it said. so you had to ask people around you yes or no questions to figure out what it was. your word went together with a word on an active's back, and that's how you discovered who was your big/little. it was super cute! the next semester our membership director did a thing with song lyrics.

adpiucf · #3 12-08-2006, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

Each new member ranks her top 5 choices.

Each active member ranks her top 5.

The VP attempts to match the lists as best as possible.

I think this is the most equitable way to split everyone up. When you do the tabulating, get another officer or two to help, but do it behind closed doors or you will have people coming up and trying to argue that they should get their number 1 choice, changed their mind, messing up your papers, etc.

SoCalGirl · #4 12-08-2006, 05:04 PM

When I was a NM I didn't realize we were supposed to rank the names. I thought we were just supposed to submit 5 names. So while I liked my big, she was not my first choice.

Drolefille · #5 12-08-2006, 05:35 PM

I couldn't remember the name of the girl who was my first choice for big. Lucky for me I adopted her later! (My big was an absent senior and while she was nice, she wasn't really there for me)

KSUViolet06 · #6 12-08-2006, 06:17 PM

I didn't get my first choice big, but I loved everyone I listed so it didn't really matter.

The girl I put #1 ended up being one of those "absent seniors", so I think it's good that I didn't get her anyway. My big is a good leader and very active in the chapter.

My little and I were both each other's #1 choice so that system worked out great for us.

FSUZeta · #7 12-08-2006, 06:57 PM

my daughter is newly initiated, and i think that her chapter used a novel solution to what could have been a big big sister/little sister problem.

there were more girls participating in recruitment last year(2005) and consequently larger pledge classes than this years. all the girls who were pledges last year wanted little sisters and there were not enough for everyone to have one. at first, the officers were going to use gpa to determine who would get a little sister-the higher the gpa the higher on the list you would be. then they came up with a unique solution-some new members would get two big sisters. my daughter was one of the lucky new members who got two bigs-she was delighted, because she was having a difficult time deciding which of the two girls who ended up being her bigs to list as first. the bigs don't seem to mind that they are sharing one little and they even came up with a term for themselves-they call themselves bigsters.

when the chapter i advise was a colony, they randomly drew names out of a hat to determine matches for "crown" sisters-since they were all new members, there could be no bigs and littles. Crown sisters performed the same functions as big/little would have.

congratulations on your election and good luck with the colonization process!

akdphi_cherry · #8 12-25-2006, 05:10 AM

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Originally Posted by FSUZeta

then they came up with a unique solution-some new members would get two big sisters.

This kind of reminded me of my pledge class- it was pretty small and whatnot, but most of the girls had already had a little, so two of my pledge sisters ended up having the same big! Haha, they got to be such good buddies during pledge we could immediately see why they should be "twins"

But yeah, we put down our top 3 active sisters that we'd like to be our big and I'm not sure how they matched us, but it was probably the same way, excluding those who already had a little or were too busy to have one.