A junior transfer recruitment story!!!

[violetpretty]

Some campus Panhellenics require PNMs to attend every party on their schedules or the PNM is dropped from recruitment (unless the PNM's absence is excused). Some campus Panhellenics will guarantee a PNM a bid (to a chapter where she attended preference) if she ranks all chapters whose preference parties she attended, provided that the PNM also attended every party on her schedule in previous rounds or had an excused absence if need be.

I agree with AOII Angel that it's a good idea to "maximize your options" by attending every party on your schedule and by keeping an open mind, looking for the best in all chapters, etc. However, it is also important to be honest with yourself and evaluate where you truly think you fit. Tippie, I agree with you that it is horrible advice to tell a PNM to rank all three chapters after pref if she would only be happy in one or two. I think PNM08 was just shocked that richi decided to skip a chapter because her school might have harsher consequences for skipping a party.

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Some campus Panhellenics will guarantee a PNM a bid (to a chapter where she attended preference) if she ranks all chapters whose preference parties she attended, provided that the PNM also attended every party on her schedule in previous rounds or had an excused absence if need.

What?!?!? Really, is that true??

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by nittanyalum

What?!?!? Really, is that true??

Well, it's really guaranteed matching after preference if you rank all your choices, not "sign up for recruitment and we'll make sure you get a bid somewhere" because of course, a PNM can get cross-released before preference. It's an incentive to discourage suiciding, to match more women who "played fair".

[BadCat25]

richi - you can't go to the best school in the midwest because I do, even though you beat the crap out of us in football every year. Just kidding, OSU is a great university. Congratulations to you on Tri Delt.

[lauralaylin]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Well, it's really guaranteed matching after preference if you rank all your choices, not "sign up for recruitment and we'll make sure you get a bid somewhere" because of course, a PNM can get cross-released before preference. It's an incentive to discourage suiciding, to match more women who "played fair".

Actually, I know of a school that guarantees a bid to anyone who maximizes her options. If she is dropped by everyone before pref, the PNM is invited back to her top choices.

[OtterXO]

Originally Posted by lauralaylin

Actually, I know of a school that guarantees a bid to anyone who maximizes her options. If she is dropped by everyone before pref, the PNM is invited back to her top choices.

Wow that's something I've never heard before! So at that school if there is a PNM your house doesn't "mesh with" you have to cut them the first or second night or risk being forced to give them a bid?

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by lauralaylin

Actually, I know of a school that guarantees a bid to anyone who maximizes her options. If she is dropped by everyone before pref, the PNM is invited back to her top choices.

Yeah, I know Tufts does that but I was trying not to derail.

[IlliniMeg]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

Yeah, I know Tufts does that but I was trying not to derail.

I have been present at that bid matching and it was an experience to say the least!!! Also because it was by hand! we had a chapter that was under quota, a chapter that made quota plus a few, and a chapter that made quota plus a lot. I'm really sketchy on the process it was an emotionally draining week and I remember being thankful I didn't mess anything up. I started to explain it but it was too confusing but essentially, after you've matched all the chapter's bid lists with pnms - any remaining who did not match (there were three chapters and pnms could go to three pref parties, but a lot of pnms only put down 2 out of 3 sororities on their pref cards because they didn't want to be in the 3rd chapter) got placed with their first choice.

The story was that years prior a parent of a pnm who had been cut from recruitment, called and raised a such a ruckus (or threats) that they put it into their policy that all pnms get a bid.

I have a friend who went to Kansas State who said they do the same thing - as long as the women do everything right I.E. not suicide. At Tufts even women who suicide get their first choice after the fact.