Where did you go on Pref Night?

[KSUViolet06]

I COB'd so I didn't get a pref. In fact, my first time seeing our pref ceremony will be this fall @ recruitment.

[Shima-Mizu]

I went to KKG and ADPi preference night and joined Kappa. ^_^

[AUDeltaGam]

I joined a colony, so I only went to one pref party... Delta Gamma!

[hannahgirl]

I went to ADPi and DG.....

you know the rest....

[reverie]

Originally posted by lyrica9
there are two pref parties here, but i only went to one....
can you guess?

Did ADPi know that lyrica9 only attended its pref party or did she in essence suicide (with the only difference being that it was before prefs instead of after)?

[texas*princess]

Originally posted by reverie
Did ADPi know that lyrica9 only attended its pref party or did she in essence suicide (with the only difference being that it was before prefs instead of after)?

I'm from lyrica's chapter, and chapters here do not recieve information on where all the pnm's are attending pref parties...I'm assuming it's like that at schools everywhere.

We're just lucky we got her, b/c she's an awesome sister

[hokieangel]

at VT you can go up to 3 pref parties....i went to KD, KKG and Pi Phi.


The angels led me to the my own little heaven on earth

[xo_kathy]

I went to AZD and Chi O.

My first party was AZD and I cried because they had such a beautiful sisterhood and it was at that moment that I realized I wanted that same feeling BUT with the Chi Omegas!

It wasn't until my first year on "the other side" that I found out most girls thought if you cried at Pref you were a shoe in! I always hoped the AZD's didn't think I led them on...

[Glitterkitty]

We always know where the pnm's go to pref. We go to three. I think our greek life person tries to get most girls a 3 pref deal, even if they've been cut. Usually if a girl is cut heavily, then they will "reassign" her to another party or pref that perhaps she cut. Or, if a particular sorority was not getting good numbers, they'd say "I know you cut so and so, but if you want to give her another shot, we can invite her back to you party/pref". I know this is not totally with NPC rules or what not, but it works really well. All of our chapters are good and at about the same numbers. It keeps those week chapters from geting weaker.

I meanthink about it, maybe susie Q is the best rushee ever! Everyone wants her. Janie Z. is an OK girl and gets cut by everyone b/c they all want Susie-well Susie of course only picks the top houses. Janie Z really wanted a top house, but lets be honest-she'd probably be happy anywhere and a good sister if given the chance. Now, no one is forced to invite back any girls they really do not like and no pnm is forced to go to a pref she doesn't want. But if Janie Z. gets a call from her Rho Chi saying "I know you really wanted ABC or XYZ, but RRR really liked you and wants to invite youto pref-will you go?" is she gonna say no? Probably not. She might even even find that she likes them better because she thinks they like her better!

I know this wouldn't work at every school, but we love it b/c it keeps the chapters from just going after the same girls time and time again and gives all the pnm's-even the shy ones , or the ones with lower grades or whatever-a chance. Once they get that bid, and they see all the other girls in their NM class-they usally get all excited and end up glad they stayed in.

I was "picked up" at COB. So, I didn't have to go through formal recruitment or pref night. The D Phi E girls just showed up at my door.

[JupiterTC]

Originally posted by Glitterkitty
We always know where the pnm's go to pref. We go to three. I think our greek life person tries to get most girls a 3 pref deal, even if they've been cut. Usually if a girl is cut heavily, then they will "reassign" her to another party or pref that perhaps she cut. Or, if a particular sorority was not getting good numbers, they'd say "I know you cut so and so, but if you want to give her another shot, we can invite her back to you party/pref". I know this is not totally with NPC rules or what not, but it works really well. All of our chapters are good and at about the same numbers. It keeps those week chapters from geting weaker.

I meanthink about it, maybe susie Q is the best rushee ever! Everyone wants her. Janie Z. is an OK girl and gets cut by everyone b/c they all want Susie-well Susie of course only picks the top houses. Janie Z really wanted a top house, but lets be honest-she'd probably be happy anywhere and a good sister if given the chance. Now, no one is forced to invite back any girls they really do not like and no pnm is forced to go to a pref she doesn't want. But if Janie Z. gets a call from her Rho Chi saying "I know you really wanted ABC or XYZ, but RRR really liked you and wants to invite youto pref-will you go?" is she gonna say no? Probably not. She might even even find that she likes them better because she thinks they like her better!

I know this wouldn't work at every school, but we love it b/c it keeps the chapters from just going after the same girls time and time again and gives all the pnm's-even the shy ones , or the ones with lower grades or whatever-a chance. Once they get that bid, and they see all the other girls in their NM class-they usally get all excited and end up glad they stayed in.

I think that's pretty cool. There are a great deal of girls that are cut every year at my school. The university noticed this, and decided to open up for expansion. By any chance as your school consider expansion as well? I think that's really neat that girls like Janie Z can get a second chance at sisterhood

[honeychile]

Originally posted by Shima-Mizu
I went to KKG and ADPi preference night and joined Kappa. ^_^

..And I did the opposite! Just goes to show you that chapters & desires differ from campus to campus and PNM to PNM!!

Oh, I was also invited back to DPhiE.

[shadokat]

I have done bid matching at 6 or 7 different schools now, and never has a member of Panhellenic been present at the bid matching process. It is strictly Greek Advisor(s) or another representative of the staff of the university and alumnae. No collegiate woman should be present during bid matching, period.

[Shima-Mizu]

Originally posted by honeychile
..And I did the opposite! Just goes to show you that chapters & desires differ from campus to campus and PNM to PNM!!

Oh, I was also invited back to DPhiE.

Indeed... chapter to chapter differs greatly when you change campus's. Our ADPi's lost thier charter this past year at the end of the semester that I had just gone to theirs and kappa's pref night's :/ which was most sad since I had friends in ADPi and had to see them go through it...

My campus is now down to 6 NPC's (we have no locals)

[ladyj39]

At the time I rushed, we had 4 sororities and PNMs could go to two.

I preffed Alpha Phi and Phi Sigma Sigma. I was torn all the way through, but on Pref Night, I knew Alpha Phi was where I belonged.