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No. You don't seem to know much about how things work. Every girl that goes to pref is on that house's list somewhere. Most houses lists are kind of fluid with the girls they really want at the top and the ones they really don't want at the bottom. Most of the ones in the middle, they want. The ones that they want more are at the top of course. If they get all their first list and so does the pnm's other house, one of these houses will get the girl even if both are at total.Top houses take quota additions all the time. Think of girls that go KKG/KAT. They will end up in one of those houses even if they're at the bottom of both lists. If you look at quota and the numbers each year you'll see it's rare for any house not to have quota additions unless they snap bid.

Snap bids are rare because the numbers usually work. But sometimes a house has girls that match at their other pref houses before the house ever gets to quota. Also, some girls suicide (list only the other house to avoid chancing a bid from the less desired house). Some girls who only have the less desired house will withdraw from recruitment rather than take a bid from that house.

Snap bids can make up for not matching to quota if there are enough alums to call girls who were cut by all the other houses and offer the a bid to the house with spaces to fill. That's what happened to Chi O the last four years. Luckily they didn't have very many spaces to fill and were able to find girls to accept their bids.

You are using your house and your knowledge is limited to your experience only. Not only is it not accurate for OU it just isn't accurate. One thing is clear you are not in a top house because you would at least know this isn't accurate for OU.

No, lady, she's right and you're wrong. Call panhellenic if you don't believe what you're reading.

Wrong a house can take quota additions if the house is not at house total. Usually a top house can not get quota additions for several reasons. One reason is the number of girls they can invite back to their house has significantly been reduced. Second reason a girl would have to be at two top houses on pref night and neither house has her high enough on their list to receive a bid (at OU that would be around 80). This senerio is rare because top houses aren't inviting back numbers much higher than they are allowed for quota because their lists simply don't drop. Sorry but it is clear you are not in a house with a strong return rate at OU otherwise you would understand the process a little better than you do. Quota additions help houses not at house total, quota helps houses not at house total, strong houses being required to release large number of girls during recruitment helps houses not at house total. Top houses stay at house total and are only allowed to go over during formal recruitment and any quota addition just makes their totals that much higher, hurting lower houses overall house total. It's rare very rare for top houses to get quota additions. You really need to get your facts straight before you shoot off your mouth with inaccurate information on this site, frankly you seem to do it way too often.

Last year quota was 82 and kappa took 85. They actually posted on Greekrank they took quota additions. I thought they were a top house?

Kappa is a top house. They had quota addictions that occur in rare situations. OU does not allow a cross cut if a PNM has maximized their options ( listed all prefer houses. The girls either preffed their houses opposite of the houses and then the houses were full, these girls were first out on the list and had to go to one of their top houses from pref. the girls preferred kappa over the other top house so kappa it was. Read the info again it states a rare exception occurs at OU and its to avoid the cross cut. OU does not have snap bids. Whoever keeps referring to them either does not understand them or she is so low in her house she doesn't understand OU's process.

OU has quota additions and most houses get the. OU has snap bids and houses that need to use them. Don't listen to the lady who doesn't know what she's talking about. (Why would she even be on here????? To rank up her own house before her daughter goes through recruitment???)

It can work like that. Kate will either get #1 or #2. That's a guarantee. If the total numbers in the houses are significantly different, then Panhellenic will try to increase the numbers in the smaller house. If the houses are approximately equal (get quota every year, don't have a ton of girls withdraw), then Panhellenic tries to place the girl in her first choice.

It works like this-- "Jane" has 2 houses left on pref night, she lists them in her preference order. She will try to be matched with her first house, if she is not matched ( because she's not in the first ant of numbers that are quota) and she has listed a second house, once again she will tried to be matched with her first house first( she now may match because a girl higher up preferred another house and had been high enough on both houses to receive a bid) if she is not matched this time with her top house then an attempt will be made to match her with her second house ( so this is third time attempting a match) if she matched now because enough girls from the second house list has either matched elsewhere( because they prefer another house and that house wanted them too) or because the girl was always high enough on that houses list but they were her second choice. Now if she is not matched after 3 attempts ( and remember that's when you do not suicide but list all houses you attending pref night) specific to OU a house she attended pref night will now be called and asked if they will take her as a quota addition so she matched with a house. Usually she will match with her first house as an addition but not always. This is the fourth attempt to match her. If you understand this process then you understand a top house does not have a list that begins to drop that significantly because the top houses been allowed to have that many girls even come back to their pref nights.

Sorry. There is no calling houses to see. Jane will be matched, probably at her first choice. It sounds like someone from back in the day is trying to make herself heard on here. Probably the same one who keeps listing a formerly decent house as a top house even though they're lower middle now.