Penn State recruitment

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by ISUKappa

The year rule applies to any bid given through any form of recruitment - formal or informal.

We had this happen when I was an adviser. A woman pledged our group via informal recruitment, depledged the same semester and then tried to sign up for formal recruitment in the fall. The Greek Advisor was extremely misinformed and though it was okay. I knew it wasn't, and contacted our NPC rep who confirmed the year-wait rule applies to both informal AND formal recruitment.

It applies when a PNM is matched during formal, whether or not she "accepts" on bid day. During informal, a PNM can be offered a bid from as many chapters as are participating. If she declines a bid, she is not bound to that chapter. If she accepts and begins pledging, she is bound for a year.

[ISUKappa]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

It applies when a PNM is matched during formal, whether or not she "accepts" on bid day. During informal, a PNM can be offered a bid from as many chapters as are participating. If she declines a bid, she is not bound to that chapter. If she accepts and begins pledging, she is bound for a year.

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[33girl]

Originally Posted by ISUKappa

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tee hee, mine too.

To the OP: I advise you to stick it out and see if things get better. If you still really, really, REALLY hate it, you can depledge and rush again in the spring, but most likely your choices will be the same ones that you had this past spring.

[KSUViolet06]

To paraphrase what others have said:

If you depledge before initiation, you won't be eligible to join another sorority until NEXT SPRING. So you would not be allowed to do fall recruitment next year.

However, once you are initiated, you may not rush again at ALL.

[SoCalGirl]

Originally Posted by PenguinTrax

Per the NPC Unanimous Agreements

VI. College Panhellenic Association Agreements
3. Preferential Bidding

A signed Membership Recruitment Acceptance or a Continuous Open Bidding (COB) Acceptance is binding. If a potential member receives a bid under the preference system, she is ineligible to be pledged to any other NPC fraternity on the same campus for one calendar year. If a potential member does not receive a bid under the preference system, she is eligible for COB.

The best and most accurate answer would be from your regional NPC advisor. You can find out who that is on the NPC site: www.npcwomen.org

Emphasis is my own. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, "preference system" is formal recruitment. Spring at Penn State is informal. Therefore she's eligible in Fall.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by SoCalGirl

Emphasis is my own. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, "preference system" is formal recruitment. Spring at Penn State is informal. Therefore she's eligible in Fall.

I'm making this up as I go along since I have no real knowledge, but what I think that part covers is cases in which a girl attends prefs and ranks chapters and is matched to one of them but she decides not to actually follow up on the bid. Technically, she never "signed" the bid, but they are clarifying that signing the pref ranking card is accepting the bid. She didn't have to sign a bid to be bound to the chapter for a year.

The COB bid would be covered by the first part. In her case, she signed a COB bid.

[ISUKappa]

Originally Posted by SoCalGirl

Emphasis is my own. Unless I'm misunderstanding something, "preference system" is formal recruitment. Spring at Penn State is informal. Therefore she's eligible in Fall.

You're looking past the first sentence "A signed Membership Recruitment Acceptance or a Continuous Open Bidding (COB) Acceptance is binding." That's the part that refers to informal recruitment. As soon as a PNM accepts a bid through any form of recruitment, that bid is binding for an entire year.

The part you highlighted refers to the fact filling out a preference card is saying "I agree to accept a bid from any chapter on this card" and is therefore also binding, even if the PNM gets her second choice and decides not to "accept" after all. The last part of the statement refers to when a PNM does not match (either via SIP or being cross-cut) after Preference round. If she does not receive a bid from any chapter she attended on Preference night, was released or dropped out of recruitment early, or did not accept a snap bid, then she is eligible for COB.