Mutual Selection
This is what the MRABA stands for
Membership Recruitment Acceptance Binding Agreement
This is what a PNM is NOT doing when she ranks a house last.
releasing the house
The contract a PNM signs to receive a bid from an NPC Sorority.
Membership Recruitment Acceptance Binding Agreement (MRABA)
The process that occurs after the first phase of bid matching. A chapter may only take these after they have made quota.
Quota Addition
This is Kappa Delta's flower.
White Rose
This what a PNM will do after each round of Recruitment and does not mean she is releasing any chapters.
Cluster prioritize/rank
This is the event format for ranking after each round.
5-4-2
This starts for Gamma Chi's and their groups after the PNMs' first party on preference to follow the binding agreement of the MRABA.
Strict Silence
These are used for chapters that don’t make quota before the final New Membership lists are printed.
Snap Bids
These are the colors for Tri Delta.
Silver, Gold, Cerulean Blue
The PNM's side of Release Figure Methodology is called _____ Recruitment.
Priority
This is how PNM's will rank after Open House Day 2.
Place her top 4 under "Selected" to the right and put her 5th chapter in the #1 spot under "Rank" on the right.
When a PNM ranks all chapters they visited on Preference.
Maximizing her options
This is an option only for chapters below house total (set after recruitment) are allowed to participate in after Bids are released.
Continuous Open Bidding (COB)
These are Phi Mu's values.
Love, honor, and truth
The name of every woman that attends a preference party will appear on this in some way. Chapters create this after Preference, ranking girls in order.
Bid list
This is how a PNM will rank after Sisterhood, assuming she got 4 houses back.
She will rank her top 2 under "Selected" to the right and rank her 3rd and 4th chapter in the #1 and #2 spot under "Rank" on the right.
The number each sorority may pledge during formal recruitment.
Quota
This is when a PNM chooses to not maximize her options and only rank one house at the end of Preference. This is the only way to not receive a bid after Preference.
Intentional Single Preference (ISP)
This is Alpha Chi's Motto.
"Together let us seek the heights"
The state or condition being equal, especially regarding status or pay; setting a total number somewhere in the middle of all the chapter sizes would allow smaller chapters to continue to invite members until they were at total.
Parity
This is how a PNM will rank after Preference, assuming she gets 2 houses back.
She will rank her top two in the #1 and #2 spot under "Rank" on the right.
This is the allowable chapter size, as determined by Pan and includes both newly pledged members and initiated members
Total
These 3 types of PNM's are able to Snap Bid.
Those who withdrew from recruitment, any PNM who was released from recruitment, and PNMs who have ISP and therefore weren’t eligible for Quota Additions
These are Sigma Kappa's philanthropies.
Sigma Kappa Foundation, Inherit the Earth, Gerontology, Maine Seacoast Mission, and Alzheimer’s Disease Research