Bid question
 

A very dear family friend’s daughter recently went through rush at a small Liberal Arts college. There are only four sororities. She received a preference invitation to two of the four, one of which was her first choice. After the parties she decided she would not be happy in the second sorority, so she did an ISP for her first choice. She ended up not getting a bid. When I was in school we were always told when voting for our pref party invites that this was a membership bid, and anyone we invited would be placed on our bid list, though we, of course, never knew where the person fell on the list- first, last, or somewhere in between. Is this still the case? Her sorority of choice did not make quota. So if she was indeed on the bid list shouldn’t she have gotten in? I know for a fact they did not make quota, and they even offered a snap bid to a girl who hasn’t even gone to their pref party. Just trying to figure out the semantics of the situation as my friend is struggling to come to terms with the way things played out.

Are you positive the snap bid was a snap bid, or were there perhaps other factors as to why this other girl didn't attend the pref party? (Class, sickness, family emergency etc) What I'm saying is she might have been invited to the pref (and therefore on the bid list) just not able to attend.

Yes, she knows the girl that got the bid. Even with the addition of the snap bid the chapter still didn’t get quota. They were three spots under quota on bid day, and issued one snap bid that same day.

There's something weird about this. If everything she told y'all is true, she should have gotten a bid. Sororities aren't supposed to be able to cut PNMs after prefs unless they find out something heinous about the girl.

This isn’t that mysterious. The house likely matched quota but then some people declined their bids. This gives the appearance of not matching quota when they actually did.

QueedD, that makes sense. Thank you, I knew I was too close to the situation to think it through clearly.