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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
There's a third category -- girls who cut your group and then didn't match. Suppose you are House X, a solid but not elite group. House X invited Susie PNM to pref, but she regretted the pref because she was also invited by superstar groups A, B, and C. Susie PNM ranks all 3 superstars on her bid card, but she's at the bottom of the third bid list at all three of them, and ends up bidless. House X offers a snap bid to Susie, since it wanted to have her at pref anyway. Susie says yes because she liked House X okay, just less than she liked A, B, and C.
This scenario times 10 = 10 pref-less snap bids. Not hard to imagine at a campus that big.
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You're right, and I had completely forgotten about that category of PNM. In addition to it happening after pref, I bet it could happen to a girl who might have cut groups after first, but not make it to prefs with other groups.
(It's always a little hard for me to imagine how it happens because so many more girls drop out than get cut and most girls who pref three will match to one.)