UGA 2010 Fall Recruitment

[KSUViolet06]

Why would a PNM write in a chapter they didn't pref? i don't even think my school allowed PNMs to do that.

[33girl]

We've mentioned this concept before on here. If a girl only has chapters left she doesn't really want, sometimes they write down "chapters that cut me and that I don't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting but I won't get penalized for dropping out and I can still get snap bids." Some schools allow you to do that, and IMO the PNM has the right to do this. This wouldn't make sense though, if the only group they put down is ABC. I thought you weren't allowed to suicide and then be eligible for snap bids or quota additions.

I think that before everyone freaks out, what needs to be considered is:

1) Even if the chapter made quota, did it put them at total?

2) Maybe the chapter cut too much and wouldn't have made quota without these girls.

3) We don't know WHY the chapter cut them - if they cut them because they don't want them as sisters, or if they cut them just because they had to cut SOMEONE but still would have bid them anyway. The rush chair (or whoever counted the votes) is probably the only one who knows that.

[PiPhiERDoc]

Disclaimer: I'm not involved with this panhellenic, so I'm answering in general terms ONLY as a chapter adviser who has done RFM on my campus and is familiar with the PROCESS

In RFM, the "flex add/remove" is a list separate from the daily invite back list, and it used by panhellenic during the process of bringing back the women for the next day. It allows panhellenic to either remove some the PNM's if the chapter is doing particularly well (ie more PNM's are ranking that chapter highly to return to it than panhellenic would have expected from their usual return rates), or to add additional women to the party if more women do not rank to return to that chapter, so that the chapter has an adequate amount of PNM's going into the next round to make them likely to meet quota. Both of these lists are put together by the chapter so panhellenic doesn't just willy-nilly remove or add women to the chapter's invite list.

As far as the bid list goes, chapters can choose to add women to their bid list even if they did not attend the chapter's party. This is often the case if they invite women to their preference and those women elect to go to other chapters, most of the time if the chapter liked those women enough to invite them for preference, they would be delighted to have them in the house.

That being said...its not really a flex list per se for the bid list.

And per NPC rules...a woman who single intentional pref's any house, regardless of whether or not she attended a pref party there, is NOT available for quota additions.

My best guess is that the chapter did not in fact make quota and made snap bids to those women who did not match through regular matching.

[dgdramadawg]

Originally Posted by lifeguardM

Daughter told her mom that quota was 48 and her house had over 60 on the bid list. Doesn't sound to me like snap bids.

A chapter can snap to total, I believe.

[dgdramadawg]

Originally Posted by lifeguardM

Daughter told her mom that quota was 48 and her house had over 60 on the bid list. Doesn't sound to me like snap bids.

Quota at UGA this year is 54 + 8 upperclassmen (62 total)

This sounds like the chapter got 48 and then snapped to 60.

[OleMissGlitter]

AOII pledged 62 new members! (11 legacies might I add)

[momuga]

SC Mom:

Welcome your daughter to Tri Delta. I am a sister and so is my darling daughter. I haven't heard yet how many new sisters we welcomed tonight into the house. They are bright young women and your daughter will be thrilled with her new sisters.

The new house is goregeous and they will be able to enjoy is for four years.

Let us steadfastly love one another -

and Delta love to both of them

[SouthernComfor]

Originally Posted by momuga

SC Mom:

Welcome your daughter to Tri Delta. I am a sister and so is my darling daughter. I haven't heard yet how many new sisters we welcomed tonight into the house. They are bright young women and your daughter will be thrilled with her new sisters.

The new house is goregeous and they will be able to enjoy is for four years.

Let us steadfastly love one another -

and Delta love to both of them

To all the GCers who gave such good advice on preparing for recruitment and explaining the process, who acted as virtual hand holders for myself and the other moms of PNMs, who sent messages of congratulations...THANK YOU!!

To momuga: I can't tell you how happy and excited I was when I found out you and your daughter are DDDs. Your comments about 'UGA on the inside' from yours and your daughter's perspectives were so helpful and some of my favorites when this mom was worrying about her PNM. I feel even better about the excellent choice my daughter made on pledging Tri-Delta and thrilled that our daughters will be sisters. Thank you!

[BuckeyeTriDelta]

I love TriDelta endings!