Ah! *lightbulb goes off at last* A PNM, in the early rounds, releases chapter PPP on her responses, BUT chapter PPP does not "release" her and would have invited her to another party(ies). Therefore, it's possible that Chapter PPP MIGHT extend PNM a "snap" bid if that scenario ever came to pass after Preference Night (I get how this works! YAY!). It does NOT work the other way, however (right?). This thread has been so educational for me in terms of so many details I never considered. Someone should write "recruitment rules for dummies" and I'll buy the first copy.

*another lightbulb* More valuable information about the process. And the short and sweet answer to the OP's original question.

*Finally! Permission for a signature line?

*And to the OP: Good Luck.

Please do yourself a favor and listen to this:

Your attitude will not help you. Your roommate might like you. She might like you enough to wish to extend you a bid. That's not the way it works. The entire chapter has to like you that much, and you have no idea (nor does she) whether or not they do. And even if they like you it doesn't mean you'll get a bid. Assuming that you will might very well keep you from being Greek at all.

And by the way, generally speaking, a sorority chapter is not going to appreciate the assumption that a PNM will get in. Learn a little tact and humility.

A little off topic, but when I went through, we were told to write down every sorority we would accept a bid to, whether or not we had gone to pref, so I put down nearly every chapter haha. Obviously I didn't expect a bid to any of those, but I assumed that you could do pretty much whatever you wanted on your pref card?

Wait, this was INFORMAL rush?

Okay, that's a different scenario. I am not familiar with campuses that have bid cards and such for informal rush.

OK, now I am totally confused!

I hereby give AzTheta permission to quote any of my posts for a signature line, now and into the future. :)

:D

What the heck is MRABA? I swear, just when I thought I had it all figured out, here comes some new shit.

It stands for Membership Recruitment Acceptance Binding Agreement. Basically it's what you're agreeing to when you sign your bid card.

Thankies!

Sorry for the acronym! It has been in place for several years but was updated over the summer to clarify the calendar year explanation. There is also a MRABA for cob so women should be signing it once they accept a cob bid.

The NPC college panhellenic is really working to make things easier to understand. I think one of the best developments from NPC is making the Manual of Information available online. At this point most groups have the MOI available on their members only site making things easier for chapters and advisors.

So if you need something for a little leisurely reading...

IIRC this was an option when I went through recruitment at my school. I say IIRC because I suicided and didn't listen to anything else they said after that. I'm pretty sure there were girls in my group who did list sororities that they did not pref.

Adding to this: They could love you so much that they want to take you to the Panhellenic Chapel and marry you, but if you have a factor from preventing that (such as grades, academic/judicial probation, criminal record, etc), there's nothing they can do about it. I'm not saying that this is the case, I'm saying it's a possibility. We don't know you or your situation.

What happens if they don't listen to that? Do they get tossed out of rush?

I honestly think we need to know where she goes to school and what "informal" rush entails. And I will say again, if NPC is going to support different recruitment styles, they can't run them all like formal rush.

(Not shooting the messenger ;) - just saying is all.)