NPC Rush - Can something be done to reduce/eradicate the number of "bidless" rushees?

[KappaKittyCat]

Originally posted by ilovemyglo
Well- since we don't know how many girls are invited to the bigger houses, or how what their # of returns are- Only our own house figures are given to us- how could we prove that they didn't go by release figures. Our campus just tells each group how many girls to release. They go to XYZ and say- you have to release 200 or whatever. And down the line.

Well, all the invite lists have to go through Panhellenic, right? I don't see how it would be so hard to enforce, especially at the schools that use computers. Of the 300 women who came to first round, ABC can only invite 200 back to second round. They cut 50 based on grades and such, and they're left with 250 women whom they'd like to invite back. Well, they pick their best 200 and rank the remaining fifty in order of preference, like the would on bid lists. Polly PNM finishes round one and ranks the ten houses in order of preference. She can only attend seven parties, so she's automatically matched with the top seven on her list, and the arrangement of invites is similar to bidmatching. That would guarantee that all houses invite the maximum number of PNMs allowed under the release figures, and that the women receive the maximum possible number of invitations.

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The problem at our school is there aren't enough girls during Pref for quota for all the houses, they set quota in the middle of the 2nd rounds. And the bigger houses don't have to do severe cuts till after 2nd rounds, so you get a lot of girls that dropped because they don't get invited back where they want to go.

Perhaps a change should be made in the way quota is set. I know that the Green Book says that quota = (the number of women attending the second invitational round) divided by (the number of chapters). Well, for our campus, with only three rounds of recruitment, the second invitational round is Preference. That way, if 30 women attend Preference and there are 3 sororities on campus, quota is ten and there are enough women for each sorority to take quota. I'm not sure this would work at bigger schools, but it's definitely something to consider.