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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
Wow. Where I go to school, all snap bidding occurs aound the same time as bid matching. So the Rho Chi's still have tiem to get in touch with them and offer them the bid. If they accept, they still get to come to the student center, get a bid card, and participate in Bid Day festivities like every other girl.
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That's exactly what we do...except that they don't run. Here's the thing...there is no one on those steps that is going to know one of their pledge sisters is a snap bid. They won't be looking for her. I had two in my pledge class and didn't know it until the end of my sophomore year. They were just already there by the time we ran. We never noticed. It would be nice for everyone to get a trophy, but the thing about Recruitment is that it's not always fair. They know they got dropped from recruitment and were on the snap bid lists. Most of the time they're so happy someone picked them up anyway it's fine. That's what both of my pledge sisters told me about their experience.
I guess I don't really see the horror in the way we do it. It's fun. And yes, sometimes girls are devastated by their choices. I don't always understand this, because it does seem that if they couldn't possibly handle being in XYZ they wouldn't list them. But when it happens, they don't have to run. They just hang back. The greek advisor will go swoop down, move them to the side, and talk to them to explain that they are bound to that sorority for a year anyway and try to convince them to join the group. If they still refuse they simply slip away and no one will notice. We're all preoccupied.
Lots of girls who got their second choices have said that they might have felt their faces fall for two seconds when they saw the card, but they ran anyway...and after spending ten minutes in that atmosphere and seeing how badly all of the actives wanted them to be there, they felt about a million times better than they would have if they'd just walked away from it all.
The only way we ever know who is devastated is if they tell us later...or if anyone happened to capture it on film.