Getting a Bid from Someone You Didn't Pref

[33girl]

By the next day you mean bid day, right? I got a little confused.

My question is what happened to the advisor. It's stories like that one that make me kind of glad our chapter had fairly clueless non-Greek advisors.

[sydney bristow]

Most of the girls snap bid at UK are girls who have dropped out. Some are those who went to pref but didn't receive a bid to any group but that's pretty rare, especially if you attend more than one pref.

[carnation]

Over the years, I have gone to many Bid Days where numerous chapters seemed shocked to see certain girls run to their house. I wonder what happened.

[carnation]

bumping this for the current discussion--

[crescent&pearls]

^^^ Thank you Carnation. I see that this thread was started back in 2006. I wonder if someone can confirm current practices with regard to getting a bid from a chapter the pnm did not list on the MRABA? And I'm talking about the " opening the bid card in the envelope at the common place when and where NMs meet to pick up their bids" bid, not the phone call extended bid. Just to clarify.

My general understanding is that a PNM could potentially get a bid from any chapter she lists on the MRABA, regardless of whether or not she attended their preference party. Personally I've never ever heard of a PNM getting a bid from a group she did not list, and I can't see how declining a bid offered by a chapter the PNM DID NOT LIST could be binding on the PNM's part, nor should it be. That is a totally different scenario from declining a bid from a group the PNM listed, even if she only listed them in hopes that it might improve her chances of getting a bid via quota additions.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by crescent&pearls

^^^ Thank you Carnation. I see that this thread was started back in 2006. I wonder if someone can confirm current practices with regard to getting a bid from a chapter the pnm did not list on the Pref card someone help me with the correct current terminology please! (is it MSP or something close to that?) And I'm talking about the " opening the bid card in the envelope at the common place when and where NMs meet to pick up their bids" bid, not the phone call extended bid. Just to clarify.

My general understanding is that a PNM could potentially get a bid from any chapter she lists on the pref card, regardless of whether or not she attended their preference party. Personally I've never ever heard of a PNM getting a bid from a group she did not list, and I can't see how declining a bid offered in that manner is binding on the PNM's part, nor should it be. That is a totally different scenario from declining a bid from a group the PNM listed, even if she only listed them in hopes that it might improve her chances of getting a bid via quota additions.

I agree. The PNM is only bound to the groups she listed on her bid list. If she had some random group on her card, she could turn them down and COB the next day. This practice must be some odd form of Snap bidding where the girl is not called and given a heads up about the situation. Not a good practice, IMHO.