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Originally Posted by LAblondeGPhi
If I missed the part where others addressed the maximizing options advantages, apologies.
To the OP:
-Some campuses Guarantee that if you "maximize your options" (meaning that you attend all of the parties that you are invited to, and list the maximum number of houses on your Bid Card) you will get a bid to a house. This means that if, for some reason, you wouldn't normally be matched to a chapter, you will get hand-placed back into the system.
-It's my understanding that some campuses will place you as a Quota Addition to your first choice if you weren't matched in the normal bid-matching process if you maximize your options. They will not if you ISP.
-I *believe* that if you ISP, and you are not on your first choice chapter's First Bid List, you will not be matched.
Basically, beyond just the "better chances with more options" concept, there are other disadvantages to ISP. Local Panhellenic bodies strongly discourage it, and often create incentives to NOT ISP.
Anyone, feel free to correct if something looks inaccurate.
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This is correct, but missing some info. If a CPC (collegiate panhellenic council) is using RFM (release figure method), then the quota additions will be in effect. That means that if a PNM "maximizes her options" through the ENTIRE process, she will be eligible for being a quota addition if necessary.
I'll elaborate. A PNM should attend as many parties as she is able to, which means either all the ones to which she's invited, or as many as she is allowed for that round in the event she gets invited to more than she can attend. So if for round 2 she is invited to 9 and she is allowed to go to 7, then she should attend all 7 that she is allowed to go to. Or if she's invited to 5 and she can attend 7, she should attend all 5. If she follows this process throughout recruitment, and then at the end of recruitment, she lists all the sororities whose preference parties she attended on her card, she is eligible for quota additions.
Quota additions are the CPC's way of making sure that PNMs get matched the best way possible, and QAs make it very, very hard for a PNM to get cross-cut. In this situation, the way a PNM would get cross-cut is if she did not list all the sororities on her card to which she was invited, which could be ISP, or could be just listing 2 of the 3.
But generally, QAs work like this: after initial bid matching is done, they look at the pool of women who have not yet been matched. Since all women who attend preference must appear somewhere on a chapter's bid list that is submitted to the CPC (this is an NPC agreement), the women in the pool appear somewhere on the list. A new round of matching bids starts as though the chapters had not yet reached quota, just like the regular bid matching is done. So sorority XYZ might reach quota, but then they have another x number of women on the XYZ bid list, and lo-and-behold the person who is second from the top of that remaining list has not matched yet because her top 3 choices already have quota (of which XYZ is number 1, in this example). So she becomes a quota addition to sorority XYZ. NPC has determined that all member organizations must accept quota additions. That means that if XYZ doesn't really want her, they should never invite her to their preference party.
I can't restate it enough. The PNM who does not maximize her options during EVERY round of recruitment is not eligible to be a quota addition. So it is in the PNMs best interest to keep an open mind. And it is in the sorority's best interest to abide by the release figures that are given to them, and to be judicious in the invitations to each round of parties.
Now, having said all that, it is possible for a PNM to ISP and get invited to her top sorority even if she is not on their first bid list. Mathematically, though, it is very very very difficult, and it depends on where the PNM is on the second bid list and how all the rest of first-list bid matching goes, what the other PNMs put on their preference cards, what the other sororities have on their bid lists, and so on. I'm sure an RFM specialist has the exact percentage chance at hand, as I do not, but I would guess it's under a 10% chance, depending on the size of the campus and the number of women going through recruitment, as well as those other things I mentioned. You probably have a better chance of rolling a 6 on a die. I guess it boils down to are you, as a PNM, willing to take the chance of getting no bid at all and being left out of sorority life, compared to getting your second or third choice and finding out that it was actually a great thing?
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