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Originally posted by AOX81:
This is what I don't get. People say that they are out for quality not quantity...so why is it that you would COB or snap bid somebody that you didn't even put on your bid list?
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I was gonna put this under the dirty rushing thread, but it's more dirty bidding than rushing. In answer to your question, at my school, once you sign a bid card, whether you are matched or not, you can't rush, informally or other wise for a year. That being said, you can receive snap bids, at least at my school, from any house. I got caught in a year where all 70 rushes wanted the same 3 houses and quota was 6. Many many girls did not get matched, including myself and my best friend. I ended up getting snap bids from 4 houses, only one of which I had put on my pref list.
The problem with the process of allowing certain houses to have the snap bid list before houses that reached quota can have it allows for the potential of dirty bidding, as happened to me and my best friend.
We both got snap bids from a house at our school, which will remain nameless. We both wanted Gamma Phi and had it put at the top of our bid card. My friend asked the girl who called her from XYZ if there was a possibility that she would receive a call from her number one choice. I asked the same question when I was called and we were both told no. It was a lie. My friend accepted their bid, cause she wanted so badly to be a part of the greek system at my school. I did not, because I wanted to be a Gamma Phi, not just a sorority girl. At 3 o'clock, on the nose (when, it turns out, the houses who made quota got the snap bid list) both my friend and I got called from Gamma Phi. It was a total shock and I, of course, accepted the bid right away. My friend, however, could not. She was stuck. She had to either refuse the bid from the other soror and be non-greek for a year, or simply stay where she was. She chose to stay at the house she had already accepted and I joined Gamma Phi.
My point is that the system is inperfect. In the end, it worked out well for the both of us, but the potential for dirty bidding is there when actives are incharge of offering the girls on the snap bid lists their bids. I just wanted to share my story because it was really a bad first impression for me and my friend of the greek system at my school, and also underscores the above asked question. Some houses really do want to go for quantity not quality. And as much as I love and respect my best friend, some girls are more intent on joining ANY house, than a particular one. These two issues join together to make houses either very weak or very strong. (Side note: with practices such as 'dirty bidding' the house that my friend joined ended up encounting a lot of problem with disintrested sisters who joined just to be in a sorority).
Leslie
[This message has been edited by gphi2k (edited February 20, 2001).]