From Pref Night to Bid Day: What happens?

[Titchou]

In the days of hand bid matching, the bid cards are put in alpha order and read thru by a committee. The woman is matched to her first choice if possible. if she is not on the first bid list of that group, her card is turned over and they go to the next one. As each group matches to a PNM, the person working that group's list moves down a name so that the total number of their matches and available PNMs always equals quota. And so it goes on thru the entire pack of bid cards. And then over and over until all are matched or there is no way to match the remaining cards. Thre is a system for gridlock should it occur. Anyone who has access to the NPC MOI (Green Book) can look it up in there under Bid Matching. The computer programs now do this but they mirror this system.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Titchou

In the days of hand bid matching, the bid cards are put in alpha order and read thru by a committee. The woman is matched to her first choice if possible. if she is not on the first bid list of that group, her card is turned over and they go to the next one. As each group matches to a PNM, the person working that group's list moves down a name so that the total number of their matches and available PNMs always equals quota. And so it goes on thru the entire pack of bid cards. And then over and over until all are matched or there is no way to match the remaining cards. Thre is a system for gridlock should it occur. Anyone who has access to the NPC MOI (Green Book) can look it up in there under Bid Matching. The computer programs now do this but they mirror this system.

And just do it much faster.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

And just do it much faster.

And without all the snippy comments....

[BraveMaroon]

I will preface this by saying that I went through Rush in the SEC in the 90s, so standard disclaimers apply:

A point I would make is that if you attend a Pref party, you are on the bid list for that sorority. You may be #1 or #201. You position on that list depends on a lot of different variables, many of which I don't understand myself, even after three years of being on "that side" of the process.

What I can tell you is, after the last guest leaves the last party, we whoop and cheer, kick off our heels, help ourselves to the leftover goodies from the kitchen and relax for a few minutes.

Then, the people who craft the bid list go off and do that, and the rest of us change into comfortable clothes and get to work.

We're busy putting together bid baskets, taking down the Pref Party set up, making banners, nametags, cleaning up the house, returning rental items, etc.

We might also get our first meal of the week that isn't mostly breath mints.

Obviously, someone has to go into the basement and start feeding the unicorns cotton candy so they'll be pooping rainbows on Bid Day.

There's a lot that goes into it. My advice is that you attend the parties, trust your gut, and don't worry too much about the one-off scenarios.

Also - LOL at "Suicidal Suzy".

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by BraveMaroon

I will preface this by saying that I went through Rush in the SEC in the 90s, so standard disclaimers apply:

A point I would make is that if you attend a Pref party, you are on the bid list for that sorority. You may be #1 or #201. You position on that list depends on a lot of different variables, many of which I don't understand myself, even after three years of being on "that side" of the process.

What I can tell you is, after the last guest leaves the last party, we whoop and cheer, kick off our heels, help ourselves to the leftover goodies from the kitchen and relax for a few minutes.

Then, the people who craft the bid list go off and do that, and the rest of us change into comfortable clothes and get to work.

We're busy putting together bid baskets, taking down the Pref Party set up, making banners, nametags, cleaning up the house, returning rental items, etc.

We might also get our first meal of the week that isn't mostly breath mints.

Obviously, someone has to go into the basement and start feeding the unicorns cotton candy so they'll be pooping rainbows on Bid Day.

There's a lot that goes into it. My advice is that you attend the parties, trust your gut, and don't worry too much about the one-off scenarios.

Also - LOL at "Suicidal Suzy".

^^^ This is awesome . . . and at Ole Miss, those over 21 who don't have to vote because it's computerized, head out to The Square (after chores are done naturally.) Some non-computerized chapters get stuck voting, but that's completely hearsay.

[TriDeltaSallie]

So remind me...

If a PNM goes through every round, attends every party she can, receives only one Pref invite, attends, and puts that group on her bid list...

Is there any way under RFM that she doesn't get a bid to that pref chapter?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

So remind me...

If a PNM goes through every round, attends every party she can, receives only one Pref invite, attends, and puts that group on her bid list...

Is there any way under RFM that she doesn't get a bid to that pref chapter?

If it's discovered that she does not meet the sorority's requirements re grades or character.

The important part of your post is bolded.

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

If a PNM goes through every round, attends every party she can, receives only one Pref invite, attends, and puts that group on her bid list...

Is there any way under RFM that she doesn't get a bid to that pref chapter?

Yes, things can and do happen.... nothing is 100% guaranteed.

ETA: ^^^ What 33 said.....

[Old_Row]

Originally Posted by Titchou

In the days of hand bid matching, the bid cards are put in alpha order and read thru by a committee. The woman is matched to her first choice if possible. if she is not on the first bid list of that group, her card is turned over and they go to the next one. As each group matches to a PNM, the person working that group's list moves down a name so that the total number of their matches and available PNMs always equals quota. And so it goes on thru the entire pack of bid cards. And then over and over until all are matched or there is no way to match the remaining cards. Thre is a system for gridlock should it occur. Anyone who has access to the NPC MOI (Green Book) can look it up in there under Bid Matching. The computer programs now do this but they mirror this system.

This is something I don't quite understand. In the old system, did Annie Aardvark have a better chance of getting a bid to XYZ if they had all the PNMs who attended their preference rank them as number one than Zoe Zipper? Because XYZ would have reached quota way before they got to the letter Z?

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by Old_Row

This is something I don't quite understand. In the old system, did Annie Aardvark have a better chance of getting a bid to XYZ if they had all the PNMs who attended their preference rank them as number one than Zoe Zipper? Because XYZ would have reached quota way before they got to the letter Z?

It didn't matter if the PNMs were in alpha order. Chapters had a 1st bid list & a second bid list. It mattered where Penny PNM was listed on which bid list. If Penny PNM listed XYZ 1st on her bid card and she was anywhere on their 1st bid list, she was matched with XYZ.

After XYZ's first bid list matched to quota, then they didn't go to their 2nd bid list. If they still had spaces available, it got a little more complicated... which I leave to someone else! Alphabetical order still didn't matter, though.

[NutBrnHair]

Originally Posted by Old_Row

This is something I don't quite understand. In the old system, did Annie Aardvark have a better chance of getting a bid to XYZ if they had all the PNMs who attended their preference rank them as number one than Zoe Zipper? Because XYZ would have reached quota way before they got to the letter Z?

Those darn Aardvark's think they are so special and can be at the top of everyone's list.