University of Southern California Recruitment

[kaeb]

Originally Posted by Titchou

No, ma'am, it has NOTHING to do with being under campus total before recruitment!

I thought that's what quota additions were? To get houses who weren't at total to quota? My apologies.

Originally Posted by Titchou

You obvioulsy are not Greek

Darn my Angle-Saxon/Germanic heritage. Good thing my sisters love me for who I am, even if I am not, in fact, ethnically Greek... (not that I've ever pretended to be) That is what you mean, right? Because I'm pretty sure I am a part of the Greek system here at USC—unless I've hallucinated my new member period, my initiation, the important positions I hold and have held in my house, and the amazing moments of sisterhood I've experienced—in which case I would hopefully be getting help, and not be on Greekchat.

Originally Posted by Titchou

Are you HartofSec's sock puppet??????

No. I don't think I've ever read one of HartofSec's posts (I'm guessing he/she posts mostly about the SEC? I'm all about the PAC-12, myself!). I do love that this is the second time I've been accused of being a sock puppet account for posting anything about USC, though. Clearly I forged my join date of two years ago, and my 170 posts (which admittedly aren't that many, but enough to be a nuisance to create out of thin air) were all added after the fact...

Now for an en masse apology.

I'm sorry. As you can see, I've retracted my statements about quota etc at USC. It was not my place to share them, but I came from a well-intentioned place. I do not want my friends to get in trouble for this, whatever I should not have shared but did is my fault. To defend them, I don't think anything they told me was confidential—it was just things that are not common knowledge, for whatever reason. (And I delineate between confidential and not common knowledge as such: confidential things are things people shouldn't know, for a legitimate reason, and things that are not common knowledge are things people just don't know because they haven't been told, e.g. that 10 members of a house's exec board are allowed to move into their sorority's house a day before the rest of the sorority can, or that chapter are allowed to correct one computer mistake, etc). The fact that houses get caught dirty rushing is not a secret, as the consequences of it are visible every year in one way or another.

[irishpipes]

Originally Posted by kaeb

I thought that's what quota additions were? To get houses who weren't at total to quota? My apologies.

I think a lot of people get confused with the lingo. You may be confusing QAs with snap bids and/or COB.

QAs are in place to assist PNMs, not really chapters (not that the chapter doesn't benefit). To oversimplify, if a PNM is unmatched after quota has been filled (and the PNM maximized her options), the RFM specialist will place the unmatched PNM on a bid list for one of her preferenced chapters. Some RFM specialists will place the PNM in the smallest preferenced chapter, others will place the PNM on her highest ranked chapter, others may use other criteria completely. In the past, quota additions were capped at 5% of quota, but since PNMs were going unmatched, that restriction has been eliminated. Typically, the chapter will not know which new members are QAs and which were on the original matched list.

Snap bids are utilized by the chapter immediately after bid matching but before bid distribution, in order to assist the chapter in reaching quota. Regular chapter members are usually unaware that a new member has been snapped rather than matched. The new member will know, and maybe the recruitment chair and a few other officers of the chapter.

COB bids are used to assist the chapter in achieving chapter total and are extended after formal recruitment has concluded.

Both snaps and COB bids are executed by the chapter, not the RFM specialist.

[mamagreek]

Does anyone know the QUOTA NUMBER for 2012 formal recruitment at USC?

Feel free to fill in the number of new members for the following chapters:

Alpha Chi Omega:
Alpha Delta Pi:
Kappa Kappa Gamma:

Alpha Phi: 86
Delta Delta Delta: 90
Delta Gamma: 78
Gamma Phi Beta: 88
Kappa Alpha Theta: 82
Pi Beta Phi: 87
(these numbers were all taken from prior posts -- they are not official). Thank you!

[gatordeltapgh]

Originally Posted by mamagreek

Does anyone know the QUOTA NUMBER for 2012 formal recruitment at USC?

Quota was 78