asking about bid list
by: ?how do sororities decide the order of the bid list? as i have read, everyone who goes on pref day gets a bid but obviously the list cuts off at a certain point. how do the sororities go about making the list to have the girls they really want in it or how do they decide?
Comment#2by: Lists
Every house has a list with all of the girls who went to pref ranked in point order. Every house does membership selection differently, so they may all look for different things. I would guess things like grades, leadership, activities, conversations, etc, are pretty normal things to give PNM's points on both before and during recruitment.
Let's say quota is 5 (for an easy example) for house ABC. PNM's are in point order:
PNM 1 - ranked ABC first, matches and gets a bid to ABC
PNM 2 - ranked ABC first, matches and gets a bid to ABC
PNM 3 - did not rank ABC first, matches to another house
PNM 4 - did not rank ABC first, matches to another house
PNM 5 - ranked ABC first, matches and gets a bid to ABC
QUOTA
PNM 6 - ranked ABC first, moves up, matches and gets a bid to ABC
PNM 7 - ranked ABC first, moves up, matches and gets a bid to ABC
QUOTA FILLED
PNM 3 - ranked ABC first, but ABC is full at quota, so she matches to another house
Since 3 and 4 did not rank ABC first, PNM 6 and 7 move up to take the spots. PNM 8 didn't match to ABC because quota was filled by the time they got to her on the list. Get it? It is super complicated...so just try to relax and not stress on this. It is out of your hands at this point!!!
by: Tigrrrrrrrr
I don't think that's what she's asking. I think she's trying to figure out how we score PNMs for the order we put them on the bid list, which like someone else said is confidential.
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by: Go Greek!
by: ^
It's internal chapter business and actually very few people will see the final bid list before it gets turned in (like president, recruitment chair and maybe an adviser) so very few people will know the true order. Everyone participates in the scoring though and that's a secret internal process as well.
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#5by: GoGreek
You cannot worry about the order you're in tonight. It's done. It's also something that only a small handful of girls in the chapter will actually know as usually the president & rush chair order the bid list based on chapter membership selection results.
The only thing that is consistent across almost every chapter is that legacies go to the top of the 1st bid list. So if you ranked your legacy #1, you'll be there on bid day.
#6by: Confused
Maybe it's just other schools-but what some have said is they will go through each girl and if anyone has an issue with them it's discussed. Honestly sounds extremely petty and juvenile-but do they really put each PNM before a group? Knowing there are so many from certain areas of Missouri-seems like a lot of catty info would come up. Hope it's more solid than that! Assuming it is?
by: Agree
Heard the same thing-but it seems in a pledge class of 100, if an active or two have an issue with someone-especially something petty-it shouldn't be considered. Heard some houses disregard this stuff and some will dismiss girls asap if an active brings up an issue
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by: GoGreek
Again, this is membership selection information which is only for initiated sisters. You'll find out how your new house handles this next year.
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by: Alum
If there are chapters that will eliminate girls based on "petty" gossip-we pretty much can determine the reputation of that house. If there is a substantial incident that eliminates a girl, fine. But as others are saying-too many big cuts this year to the well rounded, bright active girls-no ones been able to explain that. Does it really come down to gossip? And if so, everyone better stop comparing Mizzous recruitment to Alabama-our start to finish rate is already far too low but once girls catch on to this, clearly there will not be as many girls registering. Just want to see Greek Life continue to increase as it has-this has been an off year.
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by: ^
You have no idea how each chapter scores and discusses. It's none of your business. What you might think is "petty" mom is something that can tear a house apart and we all know that. Nothing has been different this year regarding the cuts. As usual, a lot of PNMs will drop out when they had options they thought they were better than, but then tell everyone they were cut. Open minds mean bids. Closed minds mean GDIs.
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by: Actually
This step happens long before pref day. It's not petty or juvenile. If someone has a legitimate reason to think someone would be an embarrassment to a house it is their obligation to speak up.
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by: Hm
It may seem petty or juvenile to you but to us, it's a way to ensure our sisterhood stays strong. Then again, it's only something you should worry about if you're an unkind person.
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#7by: Alum
I think not everyone knows what we are talking about...but to those that got defensive- you do. yes, some people in certain larger cities of MO get it-but clearly what we refer to as 'petty' will DEFINITELY NOT bring a house down. That is what 'petty' means. Or 'juvenile'. We are not talking ground breaking-just that high school stuff that some like to continue. This is why the St Louis schools and greek life get a bad rap-time to let it go.
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OOPS...last line should say:
PNM 8 - ranked ABC first, but ABC is full at quota, so she matches to another house
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