Thanks melongirl - you are explaining so many things in this thread and doing it so well! You rock. :)

So I'll ask another question - is it mainly the groups under total that COB? If not, how do they know they won't have enough people filling quota to participate?

Thanks!! :D

There are a couple of houses that are under house total. Even with quota, they may still be under "house total". They would be interested in doing COB.

There are also some houses that have come close to quota the past two years that may have sign-ups to have a net of girls in case they need to get to quota. As I said before, houses can COB on bid day and the girls are welcomed on bid day with the rest of formal rush and there is no stigma of being known as a "COB" pick.

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melongirl, just asking -- I'm not criticizing: at UGA at other times during the year, i.e., after formal recruitment, is there actually a "stigma" connected to COB?

Oh no-- I didn't mean it that way!!

Just that tonight, no one except the chp. president, membership person and the member herself will know who came through formal and who cob. So everyone can bond as one group, have their pictures taken together tonight, etc. There won't be someone coming in two days later and missing the bid night photos, etc.

Sorry if wrote that sounding snotty!! did not intend that!

Thanks.

Melon Girl,
Will UGA Panhellenic eventually post a list of the new members of each sorority as was done at Auburn and Oklahoma State? Does anyone know?

not usually. they are strangely private compared to other SEC schools.

they will publish numbers of girls each house took-- but not names.

I think that's very sage in this day and time.

Agreed. As nice as it is to see who the people who received bids are, it may not be wise with reference to privacy issues.

Where are the number of pledges posted for UGA?

Bid day doesn't start till 5:30 and the groups will be snapping and COBing up till then.

So the girls getting snapped/COB'd will know who 'wants' them before the other PNMs get their bids??

no, I meant the groups will be deciding who they want to snap and COB.

There's never any stigma to receiving a COB bid, as far as I know. And if you are a pledge on bid day, almost no one will even know you were a COB bid verses a regular match.

But since only smaller groups do COB, I'm afraid that there is a little stigma from the groups' end about having COB events.

I think that's why there's rarely any sense of spring recruitment, even when more than one group is COBing.

It's often kept kind of quiet unless you are participating in it.

Wishing all the girls the best!!! (And hoping for some results soon!!!) :)