How does your school handle bidless PNMs on bid day?

[susan314]

Originally Posted by lauralaylin

At a school I volunteered at, if a pnm was completely cut by all the sororities, she went back to the ones she liked the most. If she was completely cut again, the same was true. So she basically was able to choose where she ended up. One year we were going to get stuck with someone that was NOT a good fit with the chapter, but because she was so rude to another group, the GA actually didn't honor the guaranteed placement in her case, so we lucked out. So being rude doesn't always work.

That's horrible! I'm surprised that the advisors/national reps from the sororities on campus didn't fight that a little more.

Its one thing to guarantee someone a bid if she gets invited to preference - if a chapter invites you to a pref party, you're likely someone they'd be willing to accept as a member and appear on their bid list somewhere. But its a totally different thing to take away that chapter's right to cut you before preference.

Doesn't seem like that great of a situation for the PNM either - sure, they end up in the chapter they want, but how welcome are you going to feel in a chapter where people resent you b/c they tried to drop you before pref and Panhel forced them to invite you back? I'd be curious to see the retention stats for PNMs who were matched this way - bet a lot of them end up dropping out.

[lauralaylin]

Originally Posted by susan314

That's horrible! I'm surprised that the advisors/national reps from the sororities on campus didn't fight that a little more.

Well, it's not a big Greek campus, but I'm pretty sure that the everyone knows about this on a national level. I don't know the specifics as I didn't really get involved too much with this chapter (I was already advising another one), but I think this is just the way things are here. They also allowed a huge amount of rush violations this past year because there's no GA either and the administration don't care. It's just all screwed up.