From Pref Night to Bid Day: What happens?

[Griffins&Quills]

So... if we get to the end of matching and girl A isn't matched, and she wrote down ABC and XYZ, does a ABC or XYZ offer to take her and thus she becomes a quota addition? I guess what I was curious about is how it is determined which chapter girl A goes to, and how she becomes a QA as opposed to someone who is matched during matching.

[HQWest]

Originally Posted by Griffins&Quills

So... if we get to the end of matching and girl A isn't matched, and she wrote down ABC and XYZ, does a ABC or XYZ offer to take her and thus she becomes a quota addition? I guess what I was curious about is how it is determined which chapter girl A goes to, and how she becomes a QA as opposed to someone who is matched during matching.

At my campus - if ABC and XYZ both already made quota - she would go to whichever of the two was smaller if they both had her on their list.
If one had decided after prefs they didnt want her - and she wasnt on their list, she would go to the other.
If both were the same size - she would go to her top choice, unless that meant one group was getting way too many QAs. Then she might go to whichever chapter had her higher on their 2nd list.

You dont want one chapter to be getting too many QAs - the unicorns run out of rainbows

[aephi alum]

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All the PNMs' pref cards are taped to a cork board. Each chapter advisor is given a number of darts equivalent to quota. The advisors form a queue. Each advisor tosses a dart at the board. If it hits a pref card listing the advisor's chapter, the PNM is matched to that chapter, the dart is removed from the advisor's allotment, and the card is taken down. If the dart hits a pref card that does not list the advisor's chapter, she retrieves the dart and goes to the end of the line. When a chapter meets quota, its advisor steps out of line. Bid matching ends when all the cards left on the cork board list only chapters that have made quota, and, well, those remaining PNMs are SOL unless a chapter that didn't meet quota wants to issue a snap bid.
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