Indiana University Recruitment 2017

[33girl]

Can someone explain how they're doing QAs? I know they have to issue a minimum of 50 bids but since some groups set their quota higher aren't QAs kind of weird to have? I know they are supposed to help place as many women as possible but with so many different quotas and no set total it seems it would be more possible to manipulate it. Apologies if I missed a more detailed explanation.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Can someone explain how they're doing QAs? I know they have to issue a minimum of 50 bids but since some groups set their total higher aren't QAs kind of weird to have? I know they are supposed to help place as many women as possible but with so many different quotas and no set total it seems it would be more possible to manipulate it. Apologies if I missed a more detailed explanation.

QAs have nothing to do with total.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Titchou

QAs have nothing to do with total.

Grrr, I meant to say that some groups set their quotas higher (editing now). So that is not a thing anymore? One quota for all groups? I thought I saw somewhere that one of the groups set their quota in the 70s.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Grrr, I meant to say that some groups set their quotas higher (editing now). So that is not a thing anymore? One quota for all groups? I thought I saw somewhere that one of the groups set their quota in the 70s.

QAs are the women who do not match otherwise and who did not suicide. They are placed by the RFM specialist in chapters with preference to the smaller chapter. It's impossible to get a QA if you didn't make Q. It matters not what Q is as long as the chapter has made their Q. Understand now????

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Titchou

QAs are the women who do not match otherwise and who did not suicide. They are placed by the RFM specialist in chapters with preference to the smaller chapter. It's impossible to get a QA if you didn't make Q. It matters not what Q is as long as the chapter has made their Q. Understand now?

One question mark is sufficient

I guess it just seems odd because the quotas are different and from what I gather not entirely determined by rushee retention or chapter size.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by 33girl

One question mark is sufficient

I guess it just seems odd because the quotas are different and from what I gather not entirely determined by rushee retention or chapter size.

There is only ONE question mark!

Quota has nothing to do with a chapter's retention rate.

Quota has nothing to do with chapter size.

QAs have nothing to do with chapters having different quotas.

QAs have only to do with women who maximize their options, do not match and which chapter would be best to place her in. That's absolutely all it has anything to do with. Forget anything else. All other information is irrelevant....even if you think it should be relevant. Each person and each chapter is handled on an individual basis.

[ForeverRoses]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Can someone explain how they're doing QAs? I know they have to issue a minimum of 50 bids but since some groups set their total higher aren't QAs kind of weird to have? I know they are supposed to help place as many women as possible but with so many different quotas and no set total it seems it would be more possible to manipulate it. Apologies if I missed a more detailed explanation.

This year, there weren't a bunch of different quotas. Each group was told to expect to get between 50-55 women. Then after each group (hopefully) matched 54, they went back and offered each group quota additions. It was up to each group if they wanted to accept QAs and how many to accept.

Does that help?

[Sister Havana]

For comparison, here are statistics from 2012-2015:

2015
• 2,088 women registered
• 1,234 women participated in bid matching
• 1,104 received bids
• 130 women not matched in process
2014
• 1,905 women registered
• 1,319 women participated in bid matching
• 1,002 received bids
• 317 women not matched in process
2013
• 1,735 women registered
• 1,160 participated in bid matching
• 1,025 received bids
• 146 women not matched in process
2012
• 1,720 women registered
• 1,086 participated in bid matching
• 890 received bids
• 252 women were not matched throughout the process

(This is from an archived version of the IU Panhellenic Recruitment page.)