Some houses had harder cuts than others?

Okay, I thought so. So does that mean they also won’t cut as much for pref since they start out with less anyway?

If you maximize your options then yes, but we can’t guarantee you that you’ll get the houses you Pref back. But if u made it To Pref then your guarantee a bid if you maximize your options.

No, there is no guarantee you’ll get invited to any Pref parties.

But if are invited to Pref and you list all of your Pref parties on your Pref card, then you are guaranteed a bid to one of them. Even if you only have 1 Pref invite - if you fill out your Pref card, you are guaranteed to get a bid to that house.

If you had 4 houses for sisterhood, then you ranked your preferences among those 4 houses, favorite to least. You could be invited back to pref to a maximum of 2 of those 4. It might be your bottom 2 choices. It all depends. If your 1 and 2 choices cut you but 3 and 4 do not then you will be given 3 and 4 for pref abd you will get a bid to 1 of those houses given you list them both- max your options- for pref. However if 2, 3 and 4 cut you but 1 does not, then you will receive a bid for 1 given you pref them and sign your card. If none of them cut you, you’ll go to 1 and 2 for pref, etc. Make sense?

U are guaranteed a bid but it might not be your #1. If u are not at the top of their list, u might get your #2, but u will get a bid to one of those 2 houses u went to on pref. Hope that makes sense

No because the most liked houses can still only x amount of new members so if we didn’t use the system that is in place rn more girls would get cut in pref and less girls would end up in houses

No, it doesn’t. Every effort in Bid Matching is made to place PNM’s with their #1 choice ->> 70-80% of PNM’s will get their #1 choices.

The difference now vs 20 years ago is that QA’s are now used. Before RFM, if both houses made quota before your name came up, you didn’t get a bid. No guarantee. It was called getting “cross cut” and it happened all the time.

Also before RFM, the chapters weren’t told how many PNM’s to cut every day. So Kappa, Tri Delt, XO, ZTA -
the big ones back then would carry tons of girls to sisterhood and then drop 80% of them the morning of Pref. Since pnms thought they were having a “perfect rush”, they had long dropped the lower & mid tier houses and would all of a sudden be left with nothing the morning of Pref. I can still hear the crying screams from my dorm room in the Commons :(

Or if you somehow kept getting invited back to the low tier houses, your bid was to AGD or Phi Mu (dating myself here - but both of whom had LITERALLY less than 10-15 new members in their last few pledge classes when quota was 65-75 range) because so many PNM’s would literally reject the bid.

So be freaking glad that even if you end up in a “low tier” chapter now….you’re starting with a gorgeous, talented pledge class of 50++ girls in a chapter that has a great national reputation - and a house!! Y’all would have cried like babies to see what the “Lower tier” houses were like in the 1990’s and early 2000’s….no houses, tiny budgets, members who were proud to be “anti-sorority girl”, etc.


Trust me, this process is SO MUCH BETTER! Not perfect, but soooo much better.

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NO, they are not on probation.

They’re not on probation look on the osfl website

Kappas are not only on probation STILL, but now it's double secret probation

Both Theta and KKG are have sanctions

Kappa Alpha Theta

Primary Sanction – Organizational Conduct Probation through May 11, 2024
Secondary Sanction – Risk or Hazing Education Workshop through May 11, 2024
Secondary Sanction – OFSL Consultation through May 11, 2024
Secondary Sanction – Alcohol Education Workshop through May 11, 2024
Kappa Kappa Gamma

Primary Sanction – Organizational Conduct Probation through May 31, 2024
Secondary Sanction – Events with Alcohol Restrictions through December 31, 2023
Secondary Sanction – Leadership and Alcohol Education Training through May 31, 2023
Secondary Sanction – Bid Day Protocol Review through May 31, 2023