Please explain a snap bid?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by pokey318

She knew she was being silly, be these two houses were really a tie and she is going to keep compairing them until she feels totally at home with her house, which I don't think will take too long.

In my experience, there's always that "what if?" feeling. Although that's partly because my chapter was closed while I was still active, so I've always wondered what would have happened if I had gone with another group that's still around campus. Not to say I wasn't happy where I was, I really was, but I think it's natural to think about things like that.

[AUAZD2001]

How long does a PNM have to accept a snap bid? Is she required to accept or decline on the spot? Before the end of the day? Can she sleep on it?

[aephi alum]

It should be the same time frame as a regular bid extended as part of FR bid matching.

Back in the day at my school, bid day was a Tuesday, and PNMs had until Friday to decide. This gave the PNMs a chance to think about the commitment, talk to their parents, talk to their rho chi, spend some additional time with the sisters of the sorority that had bid them, etc. PNMs who deferred their bids were welcome to attend bid day and any other activities the sorority had planned (except, obviously, pledging ceremonies). If a PNM hadn't decided by Friday afternoon, it was an implicit decline of the bid. Snap bids worked the same way... a PNM receiving a snap bid could take some time to think about it, but had to decide by Friday. I imagine that a PNM receiving multiple snap bids could spend time with each of the sororities in question, but that never happened when I was an active.

[doubleblue&gold]

Whenever I was around the process, the greek advisor called the PNM when it was known that she did not receive a bid from her pref groups but there was another group on campus that wanted her. (someone she regretted with interest----she was still thinking about them but had too many invitations to go back to everyone.) She made the decision before the time bids were handed out so she could go to Bid Day like all the others receiving bids if she accepted. Thus, a "snap" (on the spot) bid.

[AchtungBaby80]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

In my experience, there's always that "what if?" feeling.

I think so, too. I went through that, and a lot of other ladies--both from my chapter and others--have told me the same thing. It doesn't mean you've made the wrong choice, necessarily, so no worries.