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Originally Posted by carnation
I wish it were but several of us have seen that happen--check the thread about "Getting a Bid Someplace that You Didn't Pref"--many times. It's got to be a bad surprise to go to prefs at sororities A and B and end up with a bid from C, whose parties you haven't attended since the first day. Apparently, this happens for several reasons but rather than recount them all, I'm just referring you to the thread.
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Many times? Really? That's such an unusual circumstance that the only way I could possibly see that happening is a chapter offering a 'snap bid" to someone they have not seen since the OH round. I'm sure some chapters do that but a far more likely scenario would be that a PNM who dropped out without having signed a pref card, and is therefore eligible for COR, gets an invitation to attend a chapter activity that is also an informal recruitment event.
One of my closest sisters attended XY and DEF on Pref night, then decided after attending the parties she did not want a bid from DEF, so she listed XY and Gamma Phi. We were her second choice, and she was bummed for about five minutes, and then spent the last 30 years or so happily ever after. Had she ISP'd, she would have had nothing and with all chapters making quota and over total, would have had to wait a year to try again, and who knows if she would have gotten a bid a year later? That's the far more common scenario of getting a bid from a chapter you did not pref.