Retro Recruitment:: a brutally honest story

[groovypq]

seriously, you're killing me!!

[Leslie Anne]

Sorry to anyone checking in because I've bumped the thread. I have a question that I really should know the answer to, but I don't.

If she signed her card after preference then isn't the bid she got from Marissa binding for a year? I've come across some threads lately that state that someone had until the end of the day or something to decide whether or not to accept their bid.

I've never heard of this before. Isn't that the whole point of signing your card right after Pref? You're pre-accepting.

So, unless there was a computer error, wouldn't aprocess be bound to Marissa?

Sorry for the confusion...it's been too many decades since I went through Rush.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

Sorry to anyone checking in because I've bumped the thread. I have a question that I really should know the answer to, but I don't.

If she signed her card after preference then isn't the bid she got from Marissa binding for a year? I've come across some threads lately that state that someone had until the end of the day or something to decide whether or not to accept their bid.

I've never heard of this before. Isn't that the whole point of signing your card right after Pref? You're pre-accepting.

So, unless there was a computer error, wouldn't aprocess be bound to Marissa?

Sorry for the confusion...it's been too many decades since I went through Rush.

By signing a preference card, you pre-accept the fact that you will be bound to the chapter where you match for a year. Particularly at campuses where Rho Gammas "force" PNMs to rank all of their preference chapters and don't make this fact clear, a chapter may match quota, but far fewer could actually show up at bid day. This happens all the time to my friend's chapter at another school. Again, regardless of whether those PNMs "accepted" or not, they are bound for a year.

It sucks for the chapters too, because they think they have more NMs than they really do. Some College Panhellenics think that forcing PNMs to rank all of their choices no matter what helps a Greek system, but it doesn't do the chapters or PNMs any favors. If you wouldn't accept a bid from a chapter, don't rank it.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by violetpretty

It sucks for the chapters too, because they think they have more NMs than they really do.

Weeellll, the other side of the coin is that if their HQ is on their tail about low numbers/not being at total, these girls can be included. They are considered "holdovers." Or that's how it used to work in dinosaur days, anyway.