Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 20:18     Subject: Bid day at VT
Anonymous wrote:What a terrible phrase.


Agree.
And it hasn’t been used since the mid-80s.

Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 20:17     Subject: Re:Bid day at VT
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:SIP?


It’s actual called ISP (intentional single preference) meaning she attended more than one pref party but only listed one chapter on her bid card.

If they don’t list her toward the top and then they end up filling their pledge class quota (number allotted to them) before they reach her name, then OP’s daughter will be left without a bid.

If OP’s DD had listed both houses that she attended and both of them filled their pledge class before they reached her name on their lists, then DD would still be e of them (usually it’s the house with the lowest total…but sometimes it’s the house that the individual ranked first in preference order). This is called being a Quota Addition. And the new member is not told if they are a quota addition and most of the chapter will have no idea either.

But since she only listed one house that she was willing to join after prep, then she is taking a risk and is not eligible to be a quota addition.


Yeah and she got her bid — OP
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 20:17     Subject: Bid day at VT
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If she made it through to preference round with that GPA she is probably fine.


Nope, if she SIP'd, gonna be a long day hoping the phone doesn't ring. what time is bid day?


My point was that most houses do their GPA related cuts early before they get to know the girls. She may well get cut today, but it's not likely due to the GPA. Because she suicided, she may end up getting cut this year but she can always try COB or next year.

I was Greek, my DD is greek and I'm a chapter advisor currently.


You don’t get “cut” after the last day.
If you get invited to pref, then the sorority MUST put you on their bid list.
It’s just that they may put every other person who attended ahead of you.
And, each group only gets to take a specified number of new members (this is the same number for each group given to them by Panhellenic and is based on the number of women still participating in recruitment.) If the chapter hits that number and their pledge class fills before they reach your name on their bid list, then you are not in their sorority.
That is, unless this happens to you with both groups you go to on the last day. Then they will put you in one of them even if they are both already full.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 20:11     Subject: Re:Bid day at VT
Anonymous wrote:SIP?


It’s actual called ISP (intentional single preference) meaning she attended more than one pref party but only listed one chapter on her bid card.

If they don’t list her toward the top and then they end up filling their pledge class quota (number allotted to them) before they reach her name, then OP’s daughter will be left without a bid.

If OP’s DD had listed both houses that she attended and both of them filled their pledge class before they reached her name on their lists, then DD would still be e of them (usually it’s the house with the lowest total…but sometimes it’s the house that the individual ranked first in preference order). This is called being a Quota Addition. And the new member is not told if they are a quota addition and most of the chapter will have no idea either.

But since she only listed one house that she was willing to join after prep, then she is taking a risk and is not eligible to be a quota addition.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 20:05     Subject: Bid day at VT
Anonymous wrote:I didn’t say it was low percentage of students. I said no one cares about it.


And the evidence proves you wrong. Obviously a shit ton of people care about it.

You’re just weird. Were you a social outcast or some shit like that?
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 19:54     Subject: Bid day at VT
Leave OP alone; I think it’s nice her DD is sharing with her and it’s normal for OP to be excited/nervous for her DD
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 18:34     Subject: Bid day at VT
I didn’t say it was low percentage of students. I said no one cares about it.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 17:31     Subject: Bid day at VT
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If she made it through to preference round with that GPA she is probably fine.


Nope, if she SIP'd, gonna be a long day hoping the phone doesn't ring. what time is bid day?


My point was that most houses do their GPA related cuts early before they get to know the girls. She may well get cut today, but it's not likely due to the GPA. Because she suicided, she may end up getting cut this year but she can always try COB or next year.

I was Greek, my DD is greek and I'm a chapter advisor currently.


You didn’t make your original point well.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 17:16     Subject: Bid day at VT
greek life at is not competitive at VT, that's a fact.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 17:10     Subject: Bid day at VT
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:No one cares about the Greek scene at VT.


+1


1 in 5 students is Greek at VT so this assertion is demonstrably false and makes the poster look like a total idiot.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 15:37     Subject: Bid day at VT
Anonymous wrote:No one cares about the Greek scene at VT.


+1
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 15:25     Subject: Bid day at VT
No one cares about the Greek scene at VT.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 13:50     Subject: Bid day at VT
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Oh my, I can’t imagine having these discussions with my mother when I was rushing at VT. And then to think that she would have been posting about it on a public message board! Get out of your kids business.


+1. So enmeshed.


Yikes.
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 13:49     Subject: Bid day at VT
Anonymous wrote:OP, seriously. Let her live her life.


+1
Anonymous
Post 01/14/2024 13:32     Subject: Bid day at VT
Anonymous wrote:She’s rushing as a junior?


No. She is a freshman. She struggled with a junior-level class she somehow got into in the fall.