COD and Quota Adds

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Quota additions are for women who don't match under normal circumstances in order to place as many PNMs as possible and to discourage suiciding. To be eligible to be a QA, a PNM must rank all chapters whose preference parties she attends. Some campuses will "guarantee a bid" to women who rank all three (or two, or one) chapters after preference. Quota additions are hand matched by Panhellenic. The only women who would know who a QA is are the women who hand bid match (Panhellenic advisors), and there are no collegiates (be they Rho Gammas, PHA exec, chapter recruitment team) allowed during bid matching. A woman who is a QA will not know she is a QA because her bid day will be exactly like everyone else's.

Snap bids are also conducted via Panhellenic. If a chapter does not meet quota after bid matching, Panhellenic will call unmatched women on a snap bid list from the chapter. This will occur after bid matching, but before bid day. If a PNM choses to accept a snap bid, she will go to bid day like everyone else, and the chapter (except for the recruitment team) will not know that she was a snap bid. Chapters may not snap bid women that they released during formal recruitment, so the snap bid list will be composed of women who either dropped out of recruitment or cut the chapter sometime during recruitment.

COB, or "continuous open bidding" is for chapters that are under total and/or chapters that did not meet quota during formal recruitment. This is conducted differently according to the chapter's needs. A chapter might start by offering bids to unmatched women they met and liked during formal recruitment. Chapters might also hold COB parties shortly after formal recruitment to meet more women and offer bids accordingly. A chapter may offer a bid to a woman they released during formal recruitment during COB.

Since your recruitment just started yesterday, don't be worrying about these things yet! Enjoy yourself and let us know how it goes.