Mississippi State Bid Day

[AlphaXi_Husky]

Originally Posted by Just interested

I may be wrong but I think on some campuses even if a chapter gets quota but still falls below total they can snap to total. Can someone tell me if I'm right or off base?

From my understanding, a chapter can't snap to total (if doing so means they would exceed quota), but they can COB/COR to total. Meaning that if a chapter is under total and does not hit quota, they can snap to quota and then any additional bids they extend beyond that it's referred to as COB/COR.

However I'm not familiar with some of the larger (ie SEC) recruitments, so maybe they doing things differently, though I haven't heard of what you described.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by AlphaXi_Husky

From my understanding, a chapter can't snap to total (if doing so means they would exceed quota), but they can COB/COR to total. Meaning that if a chapter is under total and does not hit quota, they can snap to quota and then any additional bids they extend beyond that it's referred to as COB/COR.

However I'm not familiar with some of the larger (ie SEC) recruitments, so maybe they doing things differently, though I haven't heard of what you described.

Well, I think the thing is that few people really talk about what the correct terms are and the experience of a girl who was offered a snap bid on bid day or a COB bid on bid day isn't different at all.

[AlphaXi_Husky]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Well, I think the thing is that few people really talk about what the correct terms are and the experience of a girl who was offered a snap bid on bid day or a COB bid on bid day isn't different at all.

I think that can vary from campus to campus. On the campus I advise, snap bids would be distributed in time for the PNM to participate in Bid Day. COB/COR bids have to wait to be extended until after bids from Formal Recruitment have already been distributed (meaning the PNM doesn't participate in whatever revealing Panhellenic has planned).

ETA: but yes, I think you're right in that the terms do get mixed up and in some cases (from what you're describing) they are basically the same thing.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by AlphaXi_Husky

I think that can vary from campus to campus. On the campus I advise, snap bids would be distributed in time for the PNM to participate in Bid Day. COB/COR bids have to wait to be extended until after bids from Formal Recruitment have already been distributed (meaning the PNM doesn't participate in whatever revealing Panhellenic has planned).

OOOh. Sorry for being so dumb. We're really talking about the difference between getting your bid on bid day as a snap and getting it anytime later as a COB?

My guess, and of course I don't really know, is that on campuses that tend to do 95% or more of their recruiting in formal, I bet there's a disposition to let chapters try to pick up as many available people as they can on bid day. It wouldn't surprise me if chapters snapping to quota had a higher priority making calls, but I doubt they'd make girls and groups wait and miss bid day. But again, I don't know.

[AlphaXi_Husky]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

OOOh. Sorry for being so dumb. We're really talking about the difference between getting your bid on bid day as a snap and getting it anytime later as a COB?

My guess, and of course I don't really know, is that on campuses that tend to do 95% or more of their recruiting in formal, I bet there's a disposition to let chapters try to pick up as many available people as they can on bid day. It wouldn't surprise me if chapters snapping to quota had a higher priority making calls, but I doubt they'd make girls and groups wait and miss bid day. But again, I don't know.

No, you're not being dumb (unless I'm being dumb and missing any sarcasm). And on some campuses you may be right about not making chapters and/or PNMs wait to miss bid day. I was just saying on the campus I'm familiar with we can't snap beyond quota and if we were to try and offer any bids beyond quota before Formal Recruitment bids were distributed, we would get fined.

I was attempting to answer Just_Interested's question of snapping to total, which from my understanding you can only "snap" to quota, after which it's technically called COB/COR. Gotta love those technicalities...

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by AlphaXi_Husky

No, you're not being dumb (unless I'm being dumb and missing any sarcasm). And on some campuses you may be right about not making chapters and/or PNMs wait to miss bid day. I was just saying on the campus I'm familiar with we can't snap beyond quota and if we were to try and offer any bids beyond quota before Formal Recruitment bids were distributed, we would get fined.

I was attempting to answer Just_Interested's question of snapping to total, which from my understanding you can only "snap" to quota, after which it's technically called COB/COR. Gotta love those technicalities...

Oh, no. I was being sincere. I sometimes think I understand it finally, and then I realize I don't. It happens over and over.

I appreciate your sharing the info.