Can someone explain snap bids to me?

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Originally Posted by utaustin

1) What are they?

2) I know you won't know HOW often they happen, but is there any likelihood of it occurring?

3) Let's say I'm at a school where 1200 girls rushed. There are 13 sororities and maybe 50-60 spots open.

What do I do to increase the likelihood of a snap bid?

It's a bid given out to a PNM who may not have matched with any of her choices during recruitment during bid matching so that she will have a bid and participate in bid dy with everyone else. Chapters not reaching quota during regular bid matching, have the opportunity to reach it by snapping up some of these women who would otherwise have gone bidless.

Women generally do not TRY to get snap bids, it's just offered and they accept/decline. Since it's a part of formal recruitment, they don't even know their bid is a snap bid. Often, they get them at the same time every other PNM gets theirs.

However: Snap bids only occur during the bid matching process of formal recruitment.

If Bid Day hs passed, then formal recruitment is over so is the timeframe for snap bids.

Now there MAY be OPEN recruitment opportunities after formal recruitment. Chapters not at total may have some openings, but I do not know if UT has open recruitment (many competitive schools do not, and chapters just wait til next formal recruitment.)