Auburn Recruitment 2012

[lawgal]

69 new Thetas is what I heard

[Greek_or_Geek?]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Titchou must not have seen your question.
YES, and that is one of the best blessings of using RFM - more chapters reach quota and sometimes beyond, and more women are pledged.
There is no such thing as "open bids to distribute later."
If a chapter has openings - and this is really based on average chapter size rather than a recruitment quota - the chapter may use Continuous Open Bidding (COB, or by its old term, open rush) to fill those slots. This often happens for some of the smaller groups, and will sometimes happen now that so many students graduate in December.
But you cannot count on any chapters - large or small - having spaces available.

Even if a chapter is at or above total, they can COB up to quota after formal recruitment if they failed to make quota. It's not common at all or something to be counted on but is in the realm of possibilities.

[irishpipes]

AXO 60
ADII 60
AGD 61
AOII 62
AZD 69
XO 58
DDD 58
DG 70
DZ 61
GPB 64
KAT 69
KD 60
KKG 72
PM 59
PBP 60
SK 60
ZTA 60

Auburn Bid List

[ramsey]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Hahaha, you're right. I will add this to my list of reasons that I think unlimited QA's are not all they are cracked up to be.

I think they are great. Because it puts the members where they want to be, the chapters want those members, otherwise they wouldnt have been invited to pref, and this really would only apply to the 1 pref party girls. If I know they ONLY preffed my party, they only have 1 option. We want them... but we want other girls who may list us first as well. We don't want otherPNMs who list us first to be turned given to another chapter because of quota because our first bid list had names on it that were going to end up with us ANYWAY. So yes, it's strategy, and don't tell me your chapters don't do it. Everyone plays this game.

anyone heard what Auburn quota was? 60ish?

[TNVol]

I'm the proud mom of an Auburn Delta Gamma! Soooo glad it's over. Added bonus, one of my rec girls pledged Theta!

[Football Fan]

It appears Tri Delta has two sets of twins, one set from Tennessee and one from Alabama.

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by TNVol

I'm the proud mom of an Auburn Delta Gamma! Soooo glad it's over. Added bonus, one of my rec girls pledged Theta!

Congratulations!

[DubaiSis]

Congratulations to everyone! Based on numbers alone it looks like it was a very balanced rush. A couple are really high, but it looks like quota of +/- 60 is good and attained by all.

Is it time to add another chapter?

[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by TNVol

Added bonus, one of my rec girls pledged Theta!

Thought Theta!

[irishpipes]

Some stats for the in-state/out of state debate:

Percentage of new members from Alabama (2012 figures):
AGD 85%
AOII 71%
ADII 67%
XO 66%
KD 63%
AXO 63%
DDD 62%
DG 61%
PM 54%
AZD 49%
KAT 46%
KKG 44%
ZTA 43%
DZ 43%
SK 42%
PBP 32%
GPB 31%

Total placed PNMs 54% from Alabama.

Number of placed PNMs from each state:
Alabama 574
Georgia 133
Florida 84
Tennessee 64
Texas 43
Virginia 18
North Carolina 15
California 14
South Carolina 13
Illinois 11
Maryland 11
New Jersey 11
Missouri 8
Ohio 8
Louisiana 6
Colorado 5
Mississippi 5
Pennsylvania 5
Washington 5
Massachusetts 4
Connecticut 3
Kentucky 3
Nevada 3
Other 3
Iowa 2
Kansas 2
Minnesota 2
New York 2
Indiana 1
Michigan 1
North Dakota 1
Rhode Island 1
Wisconsin 1
West Virginia 1

[AZTheta]

irishpipes, for the record: I love you for posting the stats. Indeed I do! You are the BEST.

[SoCalGirl]

Originally Posted by irishpipes

AXO 60
ADII 60
AGD 61
AOII 62
AZD 69
XO 58
DDD 58
DG 70
DZ 61
GPB 64
KAT 69
KD 60
KKG 72
PM 59
PBP 60
SK 60
ZTA 60

Auburn Bid List

I clicked on the list and imagine my surprise that Gamma Phi Beta now has a new "famous" member.

[AUmom2012]

OK so maybe my brain is fried from all the screaming and what not, but why is there such a difference in the toal number of pledges?

My dau was devastated, actually running in the opposite direction of the chapter rooms...........oh my it was terrible. She got her 3 rd choice. My feeling is that she was fortunate to get to have a 3rd choice, but she doesn't see it that way right now. I MADE her go to the chapter room and meet everyone. Yep, she was the only one ballin her eyes out, so it was obvious what happened. Its a good chapter, really good one.

Now time will tell if she'll get ostracized for being such a brat (which she was! I didn't raise her like that!) or if they'll embrace her and make her feel at home. Or if she'll stick with them, we'll have to wait it out. I think she was more upset because it was her 3rd choice. She said, "whats wrong with me?" It broke my heart but I told her all along that Rush can be cruel and harsh, and wonderful all at the same time. I cried all the way home just because she was crying. My husband thinks I'm an idiot.

Wish me luck, need lots of prayers!!

[AUmom2012]

[QUOTE=SoCalGirl;2166774]I clicked on the list and imagine my surprise that Gamma Phi Beta now has a new "famous" member.

Did I miss something???

And Alan Jackson's daughter pledged Zeta!

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by AUmom2012

Now time will tell if she'll get ostracized for being such a brat (which she was! I didn't raise her like that!) or if they'll embrace her and make her feel at home.

Every chapter has been through this, and they will not ostracize her for it.