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Originally posted by lyrelyre
I was very involved in my university's panhel and quite a few people on GC have said something I don't understand. How can you list a chapter on your pref card if you didn't attend their prefs? At my school chapters only listed girls that were at their pref parties. If you weren't there you weren't listed. Isn't this essentially intentional single preferencing (suiciding)?
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Aha! A question to which I know the answer!!
Two words: SNAP BIDDING.
Here's how it works, based very loosely on a true story
Nina P. Newmember goes to a school with three sororites. She goes through Rush and really loves ABC, thinks that DEF is okay and she'd like to join it if she's cut by her first choice, and GHI, which she doesn't click with at all. Nina drops GHI and goes to two pref parties, and of course prefs her first choice first, and so on. Her Rho Chi tells all the rushees to list her prefs and go home. She lists her two and goes back to take off her shoes, which look fantastic but are killing her.
Meanwhile, back at the sorority houses...
Nina loved ABC, but they've got other people in mind. Quota is 8 and she ends up #9 on their bid list. That also happens with DEF, only worse 'cause she's #10 on their list. GHI lists their people and she's not on their bid list at all 'cause she didn't attend their pref party.
HOWEVER
She IS on GHI's snap bid list, the list of people who went through Rush but didn't go back to all their parties. EVERYONE who went through Rush is on the snap bid lists for each of the three groups UNLESS they were cut by that particular group. This makes life no fun for the actives, because they now have to list everyone who came through their door and was not cut from Rush (notice I did not say dropped out of Rush) entirely on their snap bid list. Back to Nina and GHI...
ABC had a great year at Rush. They got everyone on their bid list. DEF got everyone on their list except for one, who ended up high on two bid lists and went ABC. They now have an open spot, which is filled by their #9 candidate. That #9 candidate was on the GHI list...GHI didn't have so great a year, only 5 people preferenced them. No way are they going to make quota...
Or are they?
Remember that snap bid list? Let's say Nina was first, second, third, or fourth on GHI's list. She was the one who cut them, although they thought she was all right. GHI has a problem, they can't get quota based on rushees' pref cards. They are now eligible to fill to quota based on their snap bid list, the list of people who for whatever reason did not attend their pref party. GHI extends a snap bid to Nina, who is high on their snap bid list but did not preference them.
Some problems occur with this method because quota is based on the number of women finishing rush rather than the number of women who actually preference. That sucks. This is a "perfect-world" example.
I really hope this made sense, it took me a really long time to write.
THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS: EVEN IF
YOU AS A RUSHEE CUT THE SORORITY YOU MAY STILL GET A BID, BUT IF
THEY CUT YOU THEN FORGET IT.
To Lyrelyre: I believe your chapter made a mistake in not listing people who neither attended your pref party nor were cut from Rush. Everyone who completes Rush has a chance at getting a bid, some peoples' chances are better than others. The thing is, just because you didn't list a chapter on your pref card doesn't mean you can't get a bid from them. In the opposite direction, the rushees list the sororities to which they did not go back for the sororities' snap bid list, so they can do more bid matching.
I know that not everyone will agree w/ it.
Now, I'm a very happy SK Alumna. 
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