snap bids

COB will not be decided until after pref. It is depended on if the chapters make quota. Honestly despite cuts it still might not occur. These chapters want to bring down their chapter totals since they are busting at the seams. Depends on how close they are to chapter total instilled by Panhellenic.

Also, the chapters will likely not discuss which girls they aregetting COB. That will be a decision for leadership based on lists the chapter already had created during voting after rounds.

Snap bids are only an option for chapters that did not match to quota. I wouldn't count on them ever as an option.

If you are trying to think of a way to get a different group than you have on your current list, this isn't it.

Go into pref with an open mind. Look around at the girls with you at the parties. Stop worrying about what Greek rank says about a group. ALL are really good chapters. It can be up to you whether you have a good membership experience.

Good luck.

Snap bids are made to get a sorority to quota.

If quota for a house is, say, 100, and only 97 girls match up, the house can quietly snap bid 3 girls to meet quota.

If the house makes quota or has QAs, they cannot give a snap bid.

Snap bids are usually used by very high ranking chapters, who have tiny margins of error and can only invite a couple PNMs to pref and therefore have a higher chance of missing quota IF the other top chapters beat them in rush. OR they are given out by the smallest chapter on campus if they have a hisotry of not making quota.

Both situations are honestly fairly rare. Sororities aren't talking about it because until they get their pledge class numbers back, they won't know if its even an option. And even then most of the chapter won't really know it happened, because it'll just be the top rush team making a "snap" judgment, hence the name.

The only eligible girls are those that dropped out or were release from recruitment.

Don't count on it, and if it happens, very few people will actually know about it.

Lots of girls are getting cut, but that won't result in spots being left open. Cuts are being made based on projected return rates and estimated quota until final quota is set. Sororities aren't being told to make hundreds of cuts and then oops! Panhellenic finds out at pref that everyone is "short" 25 girls and need to make snap bids on Bid Day. No one knows until everything is over and they don't make quota if they can, or will, snap bid. With a true snap bid, no one but the PNM and a few at the sorority even know because it happens before bids are passed out. Snap bids are not COB.

It will be EXTREMELY unlikely that any chapter does not make quote. So, no snap bids. Do NOT rely on this as a way to join a sorority at Ole Miss because it will be extremely rare.

If in the matching process of PNMs to chapters, a chapter does not match to quota, they have the opportunity to offer a snap bid. The window for snap bids is from the time the matching occurs right up until bids are given out. One that happens, snap bidding ends. PNMs who have participated in the recruitment process or did not receive a bid in bid matching are eligible for snap bids. Chapters who didn't match to quota or total can still give out bids once the window closes, but it is then called Continuous Open Bidding or COB. A chapter can give bids out at any time after recruitment in COB if they are under total or did not match to quota. This is the process used to allow chapters that are smaller in size to reach average or median chapter size.