Preference Invites/ Bids

[AZTheta]

I just added another link. My intention wasn't to take sides or start any disputes or anything; I am trying to research information for the PNM who started this thread.

So I am the messenger, and that is that. Please.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

I just added another link. My intention wasn't to take sides or start any disputes or anything; I am trying to research information for the PNM who started this thread.

So I am the messenger, and that is that. Please.

Notice my little "wink" smiley?

I just posted a little mini-glossary to clarify the difference between QA, snap bids and COB, because there is always a lot of confusion over that. It's important for people to know the difference, because I know people on GC and at some schools create false hope in some women because they don't really know the way the bid process works.

ETA: For example, I know of some PNMs who heard about snap bidding and dropped out of recruitment when they didn't like the choices they had left, all because they thought the houses they liked could potentially offer them a snap bid later. They didn't know that snap bids only get extended by chapters who don't make quota, and often the women who drop out of recruitment for the reason I just mentioned really only want the top chapters that always make quota.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by AzTheta

I just added another link. My intention wasn't to take sides or start any disputes or anything; I am trying to research information for the PNM who started this thread.

So I am the messenger, and that is that. Please.

All it states is that a chapter who invites a woman to preference, and therefore has listed her on their bid list, must be willing to offer her a bid. It doesn't state that she WILL become a member of that chapter, it's just saying that if things work out that way with the matching system, that the chapter must accept her, having already voted to offer her membership. It also doesn't say that a woman who goes through recruitment and attends one preference party will receive a bid to that one sorority.