Am I to understand if Polly PNM is invited to and attends only one preference party and lists that house on her preference card, she is GUARANTEED a bid there because she maximized her choices and that house is required to place her somewhere on their bid list. And because of quota addtitions, even if the house reaches quota before she matched with them, she will still be added to their bid list?

No, because in most cases, there is a limit to how many quota additions can be taken also.

kelly, there are no guarantees

zillini, got my green book out and it does not mention anything about sip's and snap bidding. to quote:

"snap bidding is an option available to chapters which did not fill formal membership recruitment quota spaces in bid-matching, whether matching by hand or computer. snap bidding is not intended to fill spaces in the chapter total. snap bidding is limited to any woman who participated in the designated formal membership recruitment.

snap bidding should be under the direction of the college panhellenic membership recruitment committee, working with the chapters who have quota vacancies. a signed membership recruitment acceptance shall be filed with the college panhellenic before a woman who has accepted a snap bid may be pledged. snap bidding shall begin immediately after bid matching and end with the distribution of bids, at which time continous open bidding shall begin."

A question about snap bids: if a house has made quota, but is still under campus total, may they extend snap bids? Or COB on Bid Day?

yes to both.

Thanks. I guess no one but the new member, and a few officers and panhellenic would know if someone was a snap bid, COB or a new member through normal bid matching.

yep, you are right!!

Theorectically. But I know actives who figured out Polly PNM/New Member was a snap bid because she didn't attend Pref. Considering we typically have around 300 PMNs at Pref, it's not easy to remember them all but it is doable.

Last year we had to snap bid 3 members and each of those women have become wonderful members. 1 is now an officer, 1 a vital committee Chair and the other is a well loved, active member. Just goes to show that no active should ever judge a new member by how she got into the sorority nor should a PNM dismiss a snap bid out of hand because her feelings were hurt for not matching.

Originally Posted by AUAZD2001
A question about snap bids: if a house has made quota, but is still under campus total, may they extend snap bids? Or COB on Bid Day?



I'm confused. I was under the impression that if a house makes quota they cannot snap bid, but they can COB as long as not at chapter total. Is this correct? Or can they snap bid regardless, as long as they're below chapter total??

I think snap bids are to quota (and possibly quota plus, but I'm not sure)

Anything else is technically COB. This could include if some of their bids from recruitment don't show up. We had girls my last year who just dropped out of recruitment the last day. Next year the Pi Chis made it clear that that wasn't dropping out of recruitment. Don't sign the card if you don't want a bid. :rolleyes:

Okay....I have a question.

I was looking at the recruitment results page, and I'm wondering how the 5% rule actually works. If I'm not mistaken - AGD at UGA got 64 new member,s when quota was only 52. HOW does 12=5%????

I thought that the most any chapter could have taken would have been 52 + 5%, or 2.6 girls, rounded up to 3.

So how is it that they were able take take quota plus 12? I'm just trying to understand the process. Thanks.

I'm pretty sure AGD was under total before recruitment, and so the other 9 may have been Snaps (COBs) and not QA's.

I haven't EVER been involved in bid matching, (thank god, everyone), so I'm completely speculating based on random conversation with an active member and GC.

Technically the additional girls may be snaps or COB, but they are apparently extended only to girls who attended prefs, were on the bid list, and listed the groups, so the experience to the chapter and to the PNM is that of QA. The PNMS are matched to a chapter they listed after prefs and the PNMs were on the chapters bid list, which isn't the usually snap and COB situation.

But I can't figure out the numbers at all. I think UGA may be looking more carefully at all the chapter sizes when they balance the groups with additions. Rather than having hard cap at 5% for all chapters, they match PNMs beyond that cap at smaller chapters, thereby equaling chapter size out more. It seems to go beyond even matching them to total if total is really 170.

This kind of indicates my stalkery nature about UGA greek life, but when they put out the grade report, they usually put chapter size on there and we can kind of see how the QA groups stand. Usually the groups who are largest might only get one or two QAs.

ETA: not that it changes the discussion much, but I think that final quota was actually set at 56. Apparently they were working with quota range when the 52 came out as quota. But if you look, any group considered making quota got 56 or more.