Snap bids

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by TSteven

Correct me if I misunderstand how this works, but if a chapter is under campus total (regardless if they make quota or not), NPC rules allows them to bid until they make total. So the sooner a chapter can bid a PNM, the less time (and numbers) the chapter needs to COB during the rest of the semester to reach total. That doesn't sound like an abuse at all. Snap bidding when you aren't at total early on seems like smart membership recruitment to me.

Yes, finding women who did not participate in FR and asking them to join is a good thing. Encouraging women in FR to drop out because you are promising them a bid is not.

And yes, it is more of a COB than a snap bid, except that they are there on bid day and nobody in the pledge class ever has to know they didn't rush.

[UGAalum94]

Oooh, I hadn't even thought of that abuse: using it as a way to get more girls out of fall rush than quota. I can see how that could get really bad, but on the other hand, my extremely limited experience is that groups that know they are going to be below chapter total even after formal rush aren't typically the groups that people would drop out for, but it certainly could happen every once and a while.

At campuses where this type of COB/Snap bid happens, can you talk to girls about this option in the spring, wait until after the fall rush deadline and then offer the bids? Or are you not allowed to even mention the possibility to a girl until after the fall recruitment deadline?

(I'm not thinking of talking to high school freshmen, I'm talking about girls who will be sophomores or juniors.)

[33girl]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Another type of snap bid went to women who did not participate in formal recruitment. Think of this as early COB, but if you could get the girl to sign a card on bid day and join the NM class, she would then be in the mix with Everyone else, and she would be bound to your chapter for one year. The key here is that the girl would have to have been contacted after the FR deadline.

EVERY chapter should have a list of women like this in their back pocket, especially now with RFM. Bidding someone like this seems that it would be a lot easier on the chapter's ego than not making quota, snapping, and then having women turn down the snap. Obviously I'm not advocating blowing off women who signed up and paid for formal, but if your snap choices are Bitter Britney 1-45 who weren't nice or gracious at all when they visited your chapter....then yeah.