cob and snap bids
by: hi:)Which sororities do COB or snap bids and how does it work? Is it in the spring or fall? Is it better to do COB or sophomore rush?
#1 by: hey
Snap bids are given on bid day, so that is over and done until next year.
COB is different for each chapter. They can only offer informal bids up to total, so the number each chapter may have is different, and some have none at all. Some chapters chose to offer any COB bids soon after bid day to keep the pledge class together, some may save them until next fall, some may have spots open up during the semester if pledges drop out before initiation (though if it's close to initiation they often chose to save them for the fall)...
If a chapter only has a couple of spots to COB, they usually will reach out to women they already know well to see if they are interested in accepting a bid, and nothing will be announced. These may be women that came to pref and SIP'd but were too low on the bid list or they may be women that have a lot of friends in the chapter and didn't go through formal. Panhel does not coordinate informal recruitment, each chapters is different and can chose how/if they want to do it.
The best thing you can do is if you know someone in the chapter or in the new pledge class, let them know you're interested and they can pass that along to their recruitment chair or pledge mom. You may never be contacted because they don't have any spots or already knew who they wanted to give bids to, but if they are also interested in you the recruitment chair will usually reach out to you.
Commentby: gphiJan 17, 2019 9:24:31 PM
#3 by: advice
I think people tend to make formal recruitment as a sophomore sound more realistic and easy than it actually is. Honestly even if you have close friends in several chapters, if you go through formal recruitment as a non-freshman, there's still a high probability that you will get cut in the earliest rounds before your friends even have a chance to really support you in front of the rest of the chapter. The chapters don't take more than a couple sophomores each (probably only around 2 on average) during spring recruitment so I wouldn't advise getting your hopes up too much about that.
If you are invited to participate in either COB or informal fall recruitment, that will definitely leave you with a much much higher chance of receiving a bid. I would recommend either option over formal recruitment as long as you would theoretically feel comfortable in one of the chapters that end up participating.
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by: heyJan 17, 2019 2:13:37 PM
also, on going through as a sophomore, each chapter looks at that differently. Some don't care and are happy to take sophomores, some only take them if they are close friends with the chapter.
If you didn't go through formal this year and want to try it as a sophomore, that's great! You can also tell your friends that joined this year next fall that you are interested in informal recruitment.
Now, if you went through formal this year and either dropped out because you didn't like the houses you had back or SIP'd only one house after pref and didn't get a bid, going through again as a sophomore is a little different. I'll be blunt, unless something really changes in the next year, the houses that dropped you will probably drop you again. Now, if you have a ton of friends who got bids this year, they may be able to pull for you when they are sisters next year, but the chapter didn't think you were a good fit with them this year and you're unlikely to get an invite next year.
As for which is better a better path to sorority life, it's all up to you. If you are just looking for a sisterhood and a mutual fit, and don't care about the tier stuff you find around here, then give COB a shot! If you are only want specific houses and it didn't work our in formal this year, both COB and going through as a Sophomore require a lot of the same things for you to get a different outcome than this year.
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