What’s the backup plan for recruitment in August?

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by carnation

I remember a friend at Baylor who said that their bids were slipped under the door. Some kids on their floor thought it was funny to slip fake bids under the door...

How cruel! So PNMs were showing up at bid day parties only to be told that nope, they weren't offered a bid after all? And I'm sure there was more than one poor girl who got a fake bid only to find out she hadn't actually matched anywhere.

Originally Posted by SweetHomeStL

Bama also announced today that bids were going to be delivered via email.

What a shame. I hope the chapters will be able to print up and issue physical bid cards at some point in the future. That's one of those things you like to keep well beyond your college years ... mine is in a scrapbook somewhere. It's also so impersonal. But sacrifices have to be made to keep everyone safe and healthy.

[NYCMS]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

I hope the chapters will be able to print up and issue physical bid cards at some point in the future. That's one of those things you like to keep well beyond your college years ... mine is in a scrapbook somewhere. It's also so impersonal. But sacrifices have to be made to keep everyone safe and healthy.

I agree. Bid cards at my school (Arizona) were not issued by the chapter, but by Panhellenic so they weren't the pretty ones with the sorority crest that I saw friends get elsewhere...that said, it was still very special and is secured in a Gamma Phi scrapbook along with a dried carnation and a card from my first Big Sister on Bid Day. I think my pledge ribbons are in there too.

[carnation]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

How cruel! So PNMs were showing up at bid day parties only to be told that nope, they weren't offered a bid after all? And I'm sure there was more than one poor girl who got a fake bid only to find out she hadn't actually matched anywhere. .

I got the impression that they slid fake bids from the less desired sororities under the doors of girls who were only wanting the top 3 or so.