Arkansas Sorority Recruitment - 2007 - Page 4

AOIIalum · #1 09-17-2007, 10:44 PM

It's my understanding that yes, they are now at or above campus total.

irishpipes · #2 09-17-2007, 10:46 PM

We actually ended up with 73, not 72. They thought one girl didn't accept, but as it turns out she is on the track team and couldn't be at bid day.

Campus total is 130 and AOII is well above that now. We had around 90 active members before FR so we are around 160 now.

exlurker · #3 09-17-2007, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by irishpipes

We actually ended up with 73, not 72. They thought one girl didn't accept, but as it turns out she is on the track team and couldn't be at bid day.

Campus total is 130 and AOII is well above that now. We had around 90 active members before FR so we are around 160 now.

Phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal.

I think participation on one of The Hogs' teams is enough to excuse a NM from bid day.

Best wishes to AOII and to the other chapters too.

UGAalum94 · #4 09-19-2007, 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by irishpipes

We actually ended up with 73, not 72. They thought one girl didn't accept, but as it turns out she is on the track team and couldn't be at bid day.

Campus total is 130 and AOII is well above that now. We had around 90 active members before FR so we are around 160 now.

Congrats! Those are excellent results.

It seems odd to me that campus total is "only" 130 if the new member classes are that big!

Just interested · #5 09-19-2007, 11:48 PM

It is my understanding that quota was 68 not 63 at Arkansas. Was there a sliding quota according to chapter size?

irishpipes · #6 09-20-2007, 10:03 AM

There is no sliding scale. Quota was 63, but they allowed a lot of quota additions.

SewBusy · #7 09-20-2007, 01:04 PM

My daughter and four of her friends are now Kappa Delta's too! They are thrilled

Just interested · #8 09-20-2007, 04:44 PM

Congratulations to your daughter and her friends. They will love Kappa Delta.

I know they offered bids to 75 and Pi Phi offered bids to 77, I understand. It just seemed strange that quota was so low. Obviously, I am totally out of the loop as to how this works.

LaneSig · #9 09-20-2007, 04:48 PM

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Congratulations to your daughter and her friends. They will love Kappa Delta.

I know they offered bids to 75 and Pi Phi offered bids to 77, I understand. It just seemed strange that quota was so low. Obviously, I am totally out of the loop as to how this works.

Quota last year was 72. The addition of Alpha Omicron Pi in recruitment probably is the cause of lower quotas this year.

irishpipes · #10 09-20-2007, 05:21 PM

I think snaps may be involved as well because one of those groups was below total. They allowed a lot of QAs too though - more than the usual 5%.

Sue E. Pig · #11 09-22-2007, 08:40 PM

Woohoo! There are 3 new Zeta babies, 2 new Kappas and 1 new Phi Delt at UA.

justasking · #12 09-23-2007, 01:16 PM

I have heard second or third hand that a PNM at bid day opened her bid in the Greek Theater to find a House for whom she hadn't attended a pref party. She apparently hadn't been told this was coming and it obviously set up an uncomfortable situation. This seems rather tactless.

Given the numbers reported here for three Houses (77, 75 and 73 with a quota of 63) does Uark operate under some sort of guaranteed bid system? Without knowing the facts, is it possible that the numbers over quota could include such a PNM?

In any event, how does a girl show up for bid day and get blindsided in front of everyone? It could end up being a match made in heaven, but I'm sure it doesn't feel like that at the time.

carnation · #13 09-23-2007, 03:20 PM

Though I never heard of it happening at Arkansas, I know for a fact that that happened when one of my daughters was rushing. I started a thread on GC but have no idea what it was called. Anyway, 2 girls in her recruitment group opened their envelopes right next to her to find the name of a third group whose parties they hadn't attended since the first day. Then I started hearing about that happening all over the state.

texas*princess · #14 09-23-2007, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by carnation

Though I never heard of it happening at Arkansas, I know for a fact that that happened when one of my daughters was rushing. I started a thread on GC but have no idea what it was called. Anyway, 2 girls in her recruitment group opened their envelopes right next to her to find the name of a third group whose parties they hadn't attended since the first day. Then I started hearing about that happening all over the state.

Out of curiosity, if that sort of thing happened:

Girl preffed A & B and ranked A & B and signed the bid card, but comes on bid day to find a bid to C

If she declined that bid would she be bound to it for a year? I would think not since her signed bid card after pref had only A & B on it?

carnation · #15 09-23-2007, 03:35 PM

I don't see how they could hold PNMs to it since sorority C wasn't on the card they signed after prefs. My daughter said that the 2 girls never reported to sorority C, that they just left the grounds.