[PhoenixAzul]

oi...just from reading that (yes, all 8 pages), the rho chi in me wanted to have a nervous breakdown.

I was really surprised at the "suicide= no bid no way no how" rule. We strongly encourage the girls to fill their cards completely here, but we always have a HUGE amount of girls suiciding, and for the most part the girls get what they wanted. I can only remember 3 or 4 girls not getting invites to final round, and only a handful of girls not bidmatching at the end (they suicided). The rules here are...if you accept and attend a final party, you appear somewhere on their bid list.

What is intersting about our process is that it is possible to extend bids to girls who suicided other chapters (we don't have a formal name for it, but I suppose it would be what you all call snap bidding). I know that our current President suicided another sorority, my big suicided another sorority, another senior suicided another sorority, one suicided Tau Delta. In my pledge class, I think 4 girls suicided TD. I know that at least 3 girls in our NM class suicided Tau Delta. It works well for us beause we typically accept our first preferences right off the bat (we usually don't make quota...we're building slowly). If we lost all the girls that suicided (us or any other house) the system would be really screwed.