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Originally Posted by OneHeartOneWay
Remember that there is no guarantee that those 4 or 5 women will in fact receive a bid from your chapter. I know you said it will take a lot (essentially doubling your chapter size) to reach quota, but you have 80ish amazing women attending your preference event- if you all knock it out of the park, you could reach quota before those 4/5 women. Despite the confusion about your Panhellenic release numbers, there is NO WAY Panhellenic can tell you how to complete your bid list. Although this is a membership selection matter, so I know your sorority has its own rules on how the bid list is set, if these 4/5 women don’t endear themselves to your chapter any more at preference, talk to you advisor about ensuring they are on the bottom of your bid list. If you reach quota before you get to them, they WON’T receive a bid and you won’t have to worry about them joining your chapter!
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I just want to point out that this depends on whether silverpearls' campus has guaranteed placement or not. The campus I advise at does, which means that if a women attends all the pref parties she has on her schedule and doesn't SIP or "suicide", she is guaranteed a bid to one of the chapters she preffed at. In silverpearls' chapter's case, if there are women who are only attending their pref party and their campus has guaranteed placement (and those women don't drop out after pref), then those women would in fact get bids to silverpearls' chapter.
Silverpearls, I'm sure this is all very difficult to digest - the nitty gritty of Recruitment often is. And if you're not a member of your chapter's Recruitment team you may never know exactly the reasoning behind why things are done a certain way. That said, I do agree with above posters that Panhell should not force ANY chapter to take girls they don't want. And while it may be too late this year to do anything about it, I hope you are able to discuss what has happened with a regional or national officer so the same thing doesn't happen next year.
Best of luck to you and your chapter!
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