Mississippi State Bid Day

[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.