pref night

I had to have my number 1. I preffed at a top 3 house and two really good middle houses. I had to have my numberv1 choice. I suicided and got my house.

Suiciding never helps you get a bid to you number one house. Suiciding does not change your place on a house's bid list and your placement
is what determines where you will get a bid. The sorities do not know how pnm's rank them so that is never considered. Your houses rank each PNM who prefs with them, and you rank your pref houses. The algorithm will start at the top of the houses' bid lists to match their first choices with PNM's who have also put them first. If your first choice house has you high enough on their bid list to match with you before they reach Quota, then you will get a bid from that house. But, if your first choice reaches Quota before you are matched with them, then the algorithm will try to match you with your second choice house. If you are high enough on their bid list to match before they reach Quota then you will get a bid from that house. Etc. etc. etc. If you are not high enough on any of your pref houses' bid lists to match with them, then at that point you would get a bid as a Quota Addition and could be matched to any of your pref houses. The algorithm tries to give Quota Additions to their number one house where at all possible, but must also consider their place on the houses' bid lists, total chapter memberships, and other things. If you only rank one of your pref houses and you don't match with them, you are out of the running to be a Quota Addition and you will go without a bid at all.

Prefs is only two rounds this year.

You have a better chance of getting into your top house by NOT suiciding than suiciding. There is no benefit at all to suicidng to getting you into your dream house and there is actually a slightly higher chance of you getting into your number one if you put all your houses.

You can always drop your house and try again the next year if you go through with bid day. Most houses are very similar once all of the fanfare is dropped. All of the houses have a ton of girls and it’s likely you’ll find a group of girls you love in any of them, especially the ones you have chosen to pref at.

DO NOT SUICIDE