From Pref Night to Bid Day: What happens?

[DubaiSis]

I think discussion of how it was back in the old days just muddies the water over how it happens now. Suffice it to say there was much hand-wringing, clutching at pearls and hijinks going on that now can't happen. I think a lot of the negative chatter about a struggling chapter goes away because there's really no one except the RFM expert who might now that ABC chapter didn't get a single person from their first list, or whatever. It's more clinical and less open to gossip. Not that there is NOT gossip, but I'd bet that more than a little of it is rumor and not fact.

[ASTalumna06]

So if I have this straight... let's say, to keep things simple, that quota is 10. Then ABC would have 10 girls on their first bid list, in whatever order they desired. I'll do alphabetical, since that's what everyone is discussing:

Amber
Brenda
Cassie
Danielle
Emily
Felicia
Grace
Haley
Irene
Jackie

Assuming that they all listed ABC as their #1 choice, then they would all receive bids to ABC. The end. If, on the other hand, Cassie, Felicia, and Jackie all matched with DEF, then there would be 3 spots left, which would require a jump to ABC's second bid list.. which would be in the order that ABC preferred to bid them. So if the first 5 people on the list were:

1 Stephanie
2 Tanya
3 Alyssa
4 Melissa
5 Laura

.. and Stephanie matched to ABC, she would make new member #8. If Tanya matched with DEF, then they would move on to Alyssa, and so on and so forth until they reached 10 new members.

So the order of PNMs is irrelevant for the first bid list, but it's clearly important for all of the bid lists after that.

Correct?