Auburn Recruitment 2012

[dukedg]

I have a QA question for situations where size is considered. Let's say you have two chapters ABC and XYZ. ABC has 94 members and XYZ has 100. You have 10 QAs to place. For simplicity's sake, all 10 put XYZ as their first choice.

In theory, you'd place 8 of these 10 at ABC to bring them to 102 and 2 at XYZ to bring them to 102. But, how in the world would you pick which 8 don't get their first choice compared to the 2 who do?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by dukedg

I have a QA question for situations where size is considered. Let's say you have two chapters ABC and XYZ. ABC has 94 members and XYZ has 100. You have 10 QAs to place. For simplicity's sake, all 10 put XYZ as their first choice.

In theory, you'd place 8 of these 10 at ABC to bring them to 102 and 2 at XYZ to bring them to 102. But, how in the world would you pick which 8 don't get their first choice compared to the 2 who do?

Well, assuming only two chapters on campus, all ten women probably attended both prefs, and listed both on their bid card to be eligible for QA's, so raising quota by one or two solves this.

More than two chapters on campus? Then it depends on which women have both ABC and XYZ. If you are assuming these are not the only two chapters, but you have ten women who listed XYZ and ABC and didn't match, it's fuzzy on what to do. Some GA's would check the position on XYZ's bid list, others would just throw all ten at XYZ, and both answers are perfectly acceptable.

[dukedg]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

More than two chapters on campus? Then it depends on which women have both ABC and XYZ. If you are assuming these are not the only two chapters, but you have ten women who listed XYZ and ABC and didn't match, it's fuzzy on what to do. Some GA's would check the position on XYZ's bid list, others would just throw all ten at XYZ, and both answers are perfectly acceptable.

This was the scenario I was referring to. Thanks for the information - I find QAs to be among the least transparent part of an already non-transparent process

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by dukedg

This was the scenario I was referring to. Thanks for the information - I find QAs to be among the least transparent part of an already non-transparent process

It's actually very transparent. Check the MOI (Green Book) for hand bid matching and all will be revealed to you - or should be. The computer does it the same way. For those of us old enough to have done hand bid matching for many years, it really isn't compllicated.

[dukedg]

Originally Posted by Titchou

It's actually very transparent. Check the MOI (Green Book) for hand bid matching and all will be revealed to you - or should be. The computer does it the same way. For those of us old enough to have done hand bid matching for many years, it really isn't compllicated.

Oh, I didn't mean the matching process wasn't transparent in how it worked; I meant that the whole recruitment process, to me, is very nontransparent to most participants. For example, most of the chapter has no idea who we invited back and then whom of those PNMs did not choose to come back. Similarly, with QAs. Why did one chapter get so many QAs and another got none. I believe this lack of transparency leads to a lot of rumors. I'm not suggesting I know a better way to handle these things, but I do believe lack of transparency allows people to come up with their own explanations.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by dukedg

Oh, I didn't mean the matching process wasn't transparent in how it worked; I meant that the whole recruitment process, to me, is very nontransparent to most participants. For example, most of the chapter has no idea who we invited back and then whom of those PNMs did not choose to come back. Similarly, with QAs. Why did one chapter get so many QAs and another got none. I believe this lack of transparency leads to a lot of rumors. I'm not suggesting I know a better way to handle these things, but I do believe lack of transparency allows people to come up with their own explanations.

Well, it shoudn't be if that's what you are seeing. The chapter - at least the officers of recruitment- what we call EVC in Delta Gamma - can see ALL the numbers so they know who they didn't invite and who ranked them where. So while they may not release that information to all 200 chapter members, the information is there in RFM reports. I think it would be difficult - if not unethical - to go over each PNM with all 100-200 chapter members not to mention you don't have the time between rounds.

And I think most people can figure out the QAs if they have the RFM info. You really should not be putting that sort of info out for public dissemination.