How does your school handle bidless PNMs on bid day?

honeychile · #1 05-17-2007, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Cutie_Hootie

At my campus (I'm a recruitment advisor for my chapter), all PNMs are visited by their Gamma Chis, where the vast majority receive their bids. The Gamma Chis are then asked to take the women who did not receive bids off campus for dinner or something so that they are not subjected to an evening alone while others (possibly even roommates) are happy, celebrating, and getting gifts and door decorations. We are a small, liberal-arts college with only four chapters, and the number of women who do not match is very small (last year I believe there were only two). Sometimes I think it is even more difficult for them because they are such a small number.

I really, really like this idea, with one exception: the snap bid. What if one of these women is off campus when the snap bid is offered and she's not there to accept or reject it?

ChildoftheHorn · #2 05-17-2007, 11:29 PM

Hmm.. As far as I know, the whole situation is determined by the RC. Most RC's have the girls meet them at public place to pick up their daily lists each at a specific time. This can be a big issue I think if a girl was dropped. Seriously, they have to stay put together because it is in the public and the next girl could be comming right up behind her.

This year had the most people that were dropped because there were fewer houses and there were even more girls rushing. I think the avg. pledge class every year is 35 people.

I dropped myself out my freshman year just before pref. (I had a bad experience I let get to me). I didn't fit in those orgs. at all (they told me crazy and weird things). Still, it was really rough to watch your best friends come back and then have to hear every "Pledge Week" story complete with gift. I was really happy for them, but I admit to crying when I called my mom.

My mom was in a sorority, as are nearly all the females in my family. I felt like I somehow let them down, but later realized that I had done it for some of the wrong reasons. She told me during that conversation that some things in recruitment can just be petty and done for petty reasons. She told me how proud she was of everything I had done and that no lack of an organization could make be less of a person. Mother does know best.

Then there were all the girls who were dropped this past year, having numbers may have helped them. The whole thing can be done either very well and situated, or heartless.

I would say what a person I knwo who was dropped said to me:" You know the Olympics. Those pair skaters are together for like, 10 years or more. You have been world champs for two years. Then, in the final round of the Olympics....your partner falls... and all your hopes are dashed away. You have to watch the others join on the podium, but not you."

I spent a lot of time with her during that following week. Her RC told her when she went to get her bid (something that they never mention could happen) and was told the situation. It was in a public place and the RC offered to help her, but then the next girl came in early. There should be some sort of official policy IMOP!

PenguinTrax · #3 05-18-2007, 09:25 AM

Wouldn't the snap bid be offered before bid day began?

ThetaPrincess24 · #4 05-18-2007, 11:35 AM

My school had the rho gammas/gamma chi's/rho chi's/whatever call the PNM's the night before (after bid matching/snap bidding had occurred which was usually around midnight) and notify PNM's that they did not receive a bid. This way PNM's didnt show up and get upset when everyone got bids in their rush group except them.

VP of membership's however were on the phone calling PNM's at 6pm on Bid Day to start offering COB bids. This process of COB'ing as many girls as you needed to meet quota/total on bid day became about as competitive as formal recruitment!

honeychile · #5 05-18-2007, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by PenguinTrax

Wouldn't the snap bid be offered before bid day began?

Technically, it should. But now & again, we've had sororities who are STILL calling bidless PNMs five minutes from the time Bid Day festivities start! Thankfully, release figures have greatly decreased the incidence of that happening.

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Originally Posted by ThetaPrincess24

My school had the rho gammas/gamma chi's/rho chi's/whatever call the PNM's the night before (after bid matching/snap bidding had occurred which was usually around midnight) and notify PNM's that they did not receive a bid. This way PNM's didnt show up and get upset when everyone got bids in their rush group except them.

VP of membership's however were on the phone calling PNM's at 6pm on Bid Day to start offering COB bids. This process of COB'ing as many girls as you needed to meet quota/total on bid day became about as competitive as formal recruitment!

And therein lies the second problem, if the bidless PNMs are out to dinner. UNLESS there are a lot of cell phones and a private room available.

33girl · #6 05-21-2007, 09:40 AM

If you don't make quota on bid day itself, can't you keep snapping a few days after that?

aephi alum · #7 05-21-2007, 10:32 AM

Technically that would be a COB, but I don't see why not. Any chapter that doesn't make quota and/or is under total can COB at pretty much any time, including right after FR.

33girl · #8 05-21-2007, 10:45 AM

yeah we never really differentiated between cob & snapping. There were times we gave girls bids on bid day who hadn't been through rush, but they'd been to our open bid parties. This was a long time ago though.

I would think that at some point you would say OK I'm going to bid day now, and stop worrying about snapping/cobing.

Cutie_Hootie · #9 05-21-2007, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

I really, really like this idea, with one exception: the snap bid. What if one of these women is off campus when the snap bid is offered and she's not there to accept or reject it?

When we go to bid matching after pref night, we already have a list of who we would offer snap bids to if they aren't matched. Last year, everyone who was eligible to be picked up through snap bids were within a half hour of bid matching. Then, all bids (COB and Snap bids included) that are to go out on Bid Night are due, signed and sealed, in the Greek Advisor's office by noon on that day (Bids are distributed about 5 that night). There is plenty of time to notify those ladies and make certain they are available. It actually works really well, but that's also at a campus that is small. I can see how this would definitely NOT work at a larger campus.