PinkBabygirl10's Informal Sorority Recruitment Thread

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Alphagamuga

(Is anybody really truthful about why people get snap bids? Nobody actually says, "Well, we wanted some other people more, but since they picked other groups, we now want you" or "we know that you cut us to pref someplace else, but we saw that you were still not matched. We really want to make quota or reach chapter total, and now that you know you're not too good for us, we thought we'd give it another shot.")

No, it's more like "we know you wanted someone else and didn't match with them, but we still want you to be OUR sister because we think you'd be happy in the long run." I think boiling it down to a numbers only thing is a little cynical.

Plus, sometimes the people you offer snap bids to WERE on your first bid list, they just didn't put you down, so it's not a case of "wanting other people more."

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by 33girl

No, it's more like "we know you wanted someone else and didn't match with them, but we still want you to be OUR sister because we think you'd be happy in the long run." I think boiling it down to a numbers only thing is a little cynical.

Plus, sometimes the people you offer snap bids to WERE on your first bid list, they just didn't put you down, so it's not a case of "wanting other people more."

Yeah, you're right. Sometimes it's because you want to give people a second chance because you know rush makes people crazy. You can know they would be a good fit even if they don't know it yet.

In the second example, though, you're really just kicking the situation back to the second kind of snap: when the chapter wanted the girl, but the girl didn't want the chapter.

I kind of intended the first example for the times when you offer bids to girls because not enough of the ones on your bid list actually accepted and you find yourselves with openings. Usually this happens because chapters "cut themselves out" rather than because their numbers were generally low.

I think release figures may be helping all of this because in addition to keeping some of the most popular from stringing everyone along, it also allows smaller chapters to know how many people they need to think in terms of bringing back, even if they are tempted to cut more. Back in the olden days, some chapters would get kind of cut happy because they misread people's interest level.