advice needed

Bamarox · #1 08-23-2007, 04:58 PM

No maximizing your options guarantees a bid to one of the three she went to pref night.

33girl · #2 08-23-2007, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Bamarox

No maximizing your options guarantees a bid to one of the three she went to pref night.

but doesn't "maximizing your options" entail having to go back to all the invites she gets throughout the week? I mean, if she hates ABC but they keep asking her back, even though she tries to cut them, if she doesn't have enough other groups above them that ask her back, she has to keep going there. So even though she's at their pref, she might not want to be a member.

Bamarox · #3 08-23-2007, 07:04 PM

If she went back to the maximum number of parties at every round and attended 3 parties on pref she should have been placed

SmartBlondeGPhB · #4 08-23-2007, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Bamarox

If she went back to the maximum number of parties at every round and attended 3 parties on pref she should have been placed

Not if her order for them differed from theirs.

UGAalum94 · #5 08-23-2007, 07:29 PM

Bamarox, are you saying that Bama will use quota additions to place all girls who maximized options on her bid card?

Is this on their website? I was looking for it earlier, and I don't think I saw it.

Do they do it for girls who only get invited to one or two prefs too?

Bamarox · #6 08-23-2007, 08:51 PM

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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

Bamarox, are you saying that Bama will use quota additions to place all girls who maximized options on her bid card?

Is this on their website? I was looking for it earlier, and I don't think I saw it.

Do they do it for girls who only get invited to one or two prefs too?

Yes Alpha Gam, if the girl has only one or two pref invitations and she has maximized her options prior to pref , she will have a bid.

tennesseemom · #7 08-23-2007, 09:30 PM

Sorry but that is not how it always happens. My nieghbor maximized her options and was still "released" on bid day...after going to all her prefs/parties all week!

AuburnMom · #8 08-23-2007, 07:46 PM

Auburn Mom 2007,

My daughter rushed at Auburn this fall also, so I know how tough the process can be. Auburn's literature does read "recs are not necessary; we'll find them if we need them for your daughter" but at Auburn if your daughter is average (and I mean no disrespect by this as the average Auburn rushee has a 3.8 GPA, 10 different high school activities and is beautiful), it is hard to rush without them.

I am sorry your daughter was dropped from rush. My heart goes out to you and to her. I know how tough that can be, especially when you enter Rush not realizing how tough it can be.

However, and I realize that this may not be a consolation for you or your daughter, if your daughter entered Auburn Rush with no recs and made it as far as having a full party invite list on pref day (3 parties on Pref day), she (and you) should be proud! Making it all the way through to 3 parties on pref with no recs is something to be proud of in the extremely competitive world of Auburn Rush!

Whatever your daughter decides to do (and like the others, I wish her all the best), I guess the message I am trying to pass along is the same as the other women, "it wasn't her, it is the system"...

Good luck and WAR EAGLE!

tennesseemom · #9 08-23-2007, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Bamarox

If she went back to the maximum number of parties at every round and attended 3 parties on pref she should have been placed

that unfortunatly is not how Auburn does it. The PNM's rank their preferences 1,2,3 and they must match up with the lists that the sororities have. Some sororities invite triple quota to pref day(ie three lists) and some invite double to pref day(ie 2 lists) if a sorority matches every rushee on their first list, and that PNM was on everyones second list, she gets "cut" out of rush.