Please explain a snap bid?

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Originally Posted by pokey318

I think I understand the basics of a snap bid, but more information is needed. Can a PNM ask for a snap bid from a house that cut her earlier or can only the house offer the snap bid?

On pref night she has two houses; if she doesn't receive a bid from either of these two houses she would like to try for a snap bid at her very first, first choice house where she was cut after round 3. She knows they gave a snap bid last year, but only one, so she is aware it is a long shot. She likes both of the house where she was preffed, but loved the house she would be interested in a snap bid.

I don't know anything about snap bids other than what I have read here so I don't know how to advise her. I didn't know if she should inform her RC of her thoughts, or of that wasn't a good idea. I wasn't sure what the RC should know and not know. Or does she wait and see if the RC calls her tomorrow and tells her she wasn't offered a bid, and then ask about snap bidding? Or is this something she should take up with the sorority itself or the greek office?

Help a new mother out here!

Only a house can offer a snap bid, but the ability to extend a snap bid varies from recruitment to recruitment. She could ask her Rho Chi, but she probably won't get more information then she would here. Her Rho Chi can't tell her the specifics of each sorority's snap bidding process, nor can she say whether or not her favorite house will be giving snap bids until after sororities get their new members.

She should not ask the sorority itself, as their snap bidding procedure is part of their private membership selection and her question would likely to be considered bad form. It is up to the house, and only the house, to snap bid someone. There's no way to make oneself available for snap bidding, nor is there really a way to express interest in snap bidding. There's no way for the Rho Chi or Greek Life office to "pass along" her interest to the sorority in question. Honestly, she just has to wait and see. That's the best I can tell you!