How does your school handle bidless PNMs on bid day?

[alexandra92]

We get our bids from 2-4 on bid day from our PX, they come to our door and hand it to us, you either get a bid, or a letter explaining they could not place you. The PX's will stay and talk to a girl if she is upset. I freaked out because I didn't get my bid until 4:30 because the rest of my group lived in the res halls across campus and my PX was late. We COB for about a week or two into the new member period, and my group personally ussually offers 2-3, other groups offer more.

Then we teeter off to a hazing seminar, and then bid day festivities.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by alexandra92

We get our bids from 2-4 on bid day from our PX, they come to our door and hand it to us, you either get a bid, or a letter explaining they could not place you. The PX's will stay and talk to a girl if she is upset. I freaked out because I didn't get my bid until 4:30 because the rest of my group lived in the res halls across campus and my PX was late.

Don't you do anything to notify the bidded PNMs so they don't have to worry like that? I.e., if they don't get a phone call, they know they have a bid somewhere?

I would hate like hell to get a letter saying I didn't get a bid while the girl next door to me in the dorm is jumping up and down from happiness because she did. At least give the bidless girls a chance to leave what could be a potentially very upsetting situation.

[alexandra92]

Originally Posted by 33girl

Don't you do anything to notify the bidded PNMs so they don't have to worry like that? I.e., if they don't get a phone call, they know they have a bid somewhere?

I would hate like hell to get a letter saying I didn't get a bid while the girl next door to me in the dorm is jumping up and down from happiness because she did. At least give the bidless girls a chance to leave what could be a potentially very upsetting situation.

You get all your letters at different times. In your room you can open it and have a private moment. Yeah I guess it can suck when everyone is jumping up and down and excited, but you can just shut your door. It's not like they're in the other girls room. People at my school are pretty respectful because many girls don't get bids, we have fairly competitive recruitment, girls who are excited are the ones who actually tend to leave and tone it down so they don't make the girls who didn't get bids feel bad.