Bid Day
 

I'm finishing my story tonight because I am impatient and hate it when people drag out their recruitment stories.
And once again, thanks for letting me tell my story. It's bringing back a lot of memories.

So bid day arrives and everybody is on pins and needles. I'm a little nervous because I didn't suicide but I still had my favorite. Not going to post how I filled out my bid card-mostly because I don't remember exactly how I completed it but also, I'm going to protect the names of the innocent.
That afternoon we're told to go back to our rooms and wait for the girls to bring our bids. They'll slip the bid cards under the door and we'll open them to find out where our new homes are. My roommate got hers first and mine seemed to take forever. Finally, it arrives and it was a bid from Bernadette, otherwise known as............................









































Sisters in Wine and Blue

Pi Beta Phi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAY!!! Is it MS Alpha?

Yes, it is. How did you guess?

I tried to think of which midsized, non-SEC university had Pi Phi chapters back in the day and then which one had about 9 groups!

Excellent guess.
I tried to make it hard, but some of you guys are waaay too smart for me to try and fool.

Great story! The one you planned on dropping at the start and couldn't ends up being The One.

Thanks for sharing (and so quickly!). :)

Great story, thanks for sharing.

The one lesson that I learned from this experience is to be careful whose advice you listen to when making decisions that will affect you for the rest of your life. A couple of those "top" sororities didn't do so well for a few years. But it doesn't matter who is top, middle, or bottom. You have to be true to yourself. Tent talk is pretty ignorant and hidden agendas are at play. Most of us take getting cut during rush really personal, but we shouldn't. It's a system that isn't perfect and all you can do is try your best, be honest with yourself, and let it all work out.

Too true! You have some fabulous points there!

Yay! I love a Pi Phi ending! And I love stories where the group you almost drop is the one you fall in love with later! Exclamation points!

Nice story and I also appreciate the quick updates. and Yes, without UC quota, back then it was harder for upperclasswoman to receive bids.

Congratulations!! Thank you for sharing your story(especially in a timely manner!).

Thanks for the story. :)

I just need a technical point clarified. Would it really be a suicide bid if they only were invited to one party? I was always under the assumption that if the PM only had one party, they could only list one party. So these girls would still be available for snap bids? I guess what I'm really wondering is how the policy has changed since the time this story occurred until now. Did they even have QAs and snap bids in the 70s?

No if they are invited to one party, it is not suicide or SIP as it is known now. They are not only intentionally choosing one party and are maximizing their options. They would have been available for snap bids. I have no clue when QA and snap bids were created as I'm part of the post RFM crowd.

I know at the time that I pledged, there were no snap bids or QA's-at least at my college. And I believe, unless I'm crazy, that quota was determined by how many girls went through on the first day. If 270 girls signed up for rush, then quota was 30 girls for the 9 sororities.