How Can We Maximize Greek Membership?

[ZetaGirl22]

At my undergraduate school, we did have guaranteed bidding...that is if you maximized all your options and ranked all your houses after pref, you were guaranteed a bid, even if you only preffed at 1 house. If you were released by everyone before pref, that was a different story, but I dont think that happened too too often. Here was the problem, though......you ended up with some houses taking quota plus and other houses not making it by a long shot.......this was because there was NO panhellenic unity at my school.....dirty rushing was rampant, and so was trash talking between chapters.....and because of this A LOT of girls would drop if they didn't get invited back to the "top three"....so groups that are popluar groups to pref at end up getting quota plus...smaooer chapters get smaller. What's worse is that we had deferred recruitment so that the PNMs have a whole semester of fraternity parties to go too and become well schooled on the stereotypes......it is virtually impossible for a house to move up in status.......but enough for now

[irishpipes]

At my undergraduate school, we did have guaranteed bidding...that is if you maximized all your options and ranked all your houses after pref, you were guaranteed a bid, even if you only preffed at 1 house.

How does this work? Say ABC invites 30 girls to pref, and quota is 10. ABC will be at total if it takes quota. So, ABC is fortunate enough that each girl on its first bid list (PNMs 1-10) picks them first also. But, PNMs 18 and 26 only preffed at ABC, and because they maximized their options, are guaranteed a bid from ABC. Does PH allow ABC to take 12 and go 2 over total, or do PNMs 9 and 10 get bumped in favor of PNMs 18 and 26?

[lyrelyre]

How does this work? Say ABC invites 30 girls to pref, and quota is 10. ABC will be at total if it takes quota. So, ABC is fortunate enough that each girl on its first bid list (PNMs 1-10) picks them first also. But, PNMs 18 and 26 only preffed at ABC, and because they maximized their options, are guaranteed a bid from ABC. Does PH allow ABC to take 12 and go 2 over total, or do PNMs 9 and 10 get bumped in favor of PNMs 18 and 26?

I think it varies slightly from campus to campus. Where I advise PNMs 18 and 26 would then get their second or third choice. If their second and third choices matched to quota before they were placed (or they only preffed at one chapter, but maximized their options) they would be hand matched by the recruitment advisors at bid matching. If ABC was their only chapter they should get ABC. If they have preffed other chapters they may end up with bids to one of those other chapters. However, it does not sound like Auburn uses this same system.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally posted by lyrelyre
I think it varies slightly from campus to campus. Where I advise PNMs 18 and 26 would then get their second or third choice. If their second and third choices matched to quota before they were placed (or they only preffed at one chapter, but maximized their options) they would be hand matched by the recruitment advisors at bid matching. If ABC was their only chapter they should get ABC. If they have preffed other chapters they may end up with bids to one of those other chapters. However, it does not sound like Auburn uses this same system.

This is correct, and the GB says they should be hand placed in the chapter with the smallest total chapter size.

[ZetaGirl22]

at my school, yes....ABC is allowed to go 2 over total, which is why at the end of FR we'd have 3 or 4 chapters over total and some not even halfway there....great if your a PNM, but awful if your one of the chapters on the losing end of the spectrum

[carnation]

Six years later...what do you think?

[Mevara]

At our campus the only PNMs that go bidless are those that suicide and the handful that get dropped right before Pref.