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Originally posted by TxGirl
NPC rules say you can't punish a group by not allowing them to get to chapter total or to quota.
I'm assuming this was COB events that brought the situation about - not formal recruitment. If you had received a bid during formal recruitment, then (as said before) would have signed a formal bid card (can't remember what the new NPC term is for it) and that would have bound you to that chapter for a year. This means that you could only be a member of that group until your year had past. You couldn't take a bid from another group until then - either through formal recruitment or through COB.
As for COB errors - many things could have happened.
The MVP could have extended to many bids.
Someone that was give a bid before Kelly could ha
ve declined and then accepted and they felt that she should be given the spot (I wouldn't agree but it's possible).
They could have miscounted the number of bids they could actually extend and the advisor was the one who caught it. Although as the Advisor I would have go to Greek Life with this and hoped to be allowed to take the extra bid, but perhaps they didn't think of it or knew it would be denied.
So, I don't think it was necessarily malicious on anyones part, I think that (as is always said on GC) that if fall is formal recruitment for your school, you should go through with an open mind. There is no telling what happened and who wants to beat a dead horse - they just start to smell
Kelly could go through recruitment and find that this is really the chapter for her - obviously she already felt that way if she was willing to accept a bid in the first place.
So, to answer your questions:
Thanks a lot!
Is it likely that they would remember me and invite me back after the first night during fall recruitment?
Maybe yes, maybe no. I would think so though since most officers take their positions in the spring the person that was in charge of recruitment in the spring will be in charge in the fall (assuming that fall is formal recruitment).
Another thing I was wondering about is if the chapters that didn't offer me a bid would even consider me.
Sure, unless you don't have grades. I think you need to work on the assumption that they gave out to many bids - not that they "suddenly" didn't like you for some reason.
I realize this is probably extremely early to be worrying about this. I'm just trying to get recs together and trying to figure out whether I should go ahead and get them for those chapters.
It's never to early to start making contacts for recs. Granted it's supposed to be the chapters responsibility to get rec for women they are interested in - but of course that doesn't happen. Especially since it is so much easier for one person to get one for each chapter than for each chapter to get one for say the 300 women going through recruitment. But, GC is a great place to start making contacts for recs - I'm sure you've already got a few supporters who will write one for you after this post.
So, my advise is - go though fall recruitment, get your recs in order now and KEEP AN OPEN MIND for all chapters on your campus 
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The only thing that leaves me a little cold about this whole thing is, why does that chapter consider Kelly an "extra?" I mean, it's totally their loss, but seriously......isn't there something in the rule book that says something about, "If you gave out too many bids by accident, you can just GIVE all the girls their bids, so you don't have any drama or hurt feelings, but then your chapter can't participate in the next round of C.O.B." or something to that effect? Or, the chapter could have given out the proper number of bids in the first place, and then snapped Kelly......or not, in which case she could have accepted a bid to another group, and she wouldn't have to feel bad. I'm not Greek, so I don't know these things exactly, but I'm just wondering, where do you draw the line between following the rules, and doing the "nice" thing? Like I said, Kelly's friends and roommates aren't going to know about all the rules and whatnot, they're just going to see "Kelly rushed ABC and got a bid, but then they retracted it less than 24 hours later!!! How mean!!!" I'm not saying that the ABC's necessarily did it to be mean, but whatever the case, they're probably shooting themselves in the foot as far as public relations are concerned. I'm kind of puzzled and dismayed right now, as to why anyone would put a nice girl like Kelly through all this unnecessary stress and confusion, without even making any semblance of an attempt to clear things up for her after the fact.