pref night

If you attend a pref party, you are somewhere on a bid list.

If you attend 2 houses on pref, then you put the order of the houses 1st and 2nd. If your 1st choice’s bid list fills before they get to your name, you then are routed to the 2nd house. If your 2nd house fills, Panhellenic steps in and looks at quota adds for those pnms who promised their options- meaning they did not single pref a house. (Suicide by only lifting 1 house) I am not clear if they must go in order for possible add ons according to your 1st vs. 2nd house.

If you have been invited to 1 house for pref and your turn in your card vs. quitting after your party— you will be in that house. (I believe)

So it is best not to single pref a house when your have 2 options. That works for a very small number of pnms

Someone correct if wrong. But I believe that is how it works. Your gamma chi will be able to help you thru thus.

Copy and pasted from the Panhellenic Rules:

Preference cards will be filled out directly following the last preference party. A PNM may decide to “Intentional Single Preference” (putting only one sorority name on a preference card), but it is strongly discouraged. If a PNM attends a single house on Preference Night, she is guaranteed a bid. If, however, she attends two houses and commits Intentional Single Preference, she is not guaranteed a bid.

It is important for PNM's to understand that the sororities' choices drive the bid matching process after pref, not the other way around. You will not necessarily get your first choice but you do have a better than 50/50 chance of it happening. But be prepared for either choice and go to bid day with an open heart. If you pref one house and put it on your card you will get that bid guaranteed.

The Quota Addition process tries very hard to give the PNM her first choice but there are other factors considered as well, such as her place on the two houses' bid lists, chapter sizes, number of PNM's being Quota Additions, etc.