uga snap bids and cob

when will most chapters know they didn’t meet quota?

After bid matching.

If you haven't received a call by now, you're not getting a snap bid.

You can still get a cob in the next few days. I know a girl that got one from the house she suicided a few days after bid day.

if a chapter needs to take COB to make quota, they can pick up anyone over the next few days who did not receive a bid or dropped out before pref.

snap bids are done at the same time a normal bid matching so you would receive a bid at 6 like everyone else. I believe a PNM can be offered a snap bid to a chapter she was released from/she released earlier in the week. Because you didn't sign an MRABA, you will be asked if you accept the bid and would know by now.

If you attend pref round you are not eligible for a snap bid. If you sign your MRABA card and don't accept that bid, or accept and then drop, you are not eligible for any bid until next fall's formal recruitment. If you suicide and don't get that house, you were on their bid list but too low to be matched, so it's not like they actually dropped you. So yes, there is a very small chance they would offer you a COB, but this is very rare and not a good strategy at all.

Snap Bid: Offered by a house before bid day if the house didn't make quota through bid matching after pref. Only PNM's who did not attend the pref round are eligible for a snap bid. Snap bids are RARE and no PNM should count on one.
COB: After bid day, houses that still didn't make quota, or that are under chapter total, may offer bids through COB. COB bids are not all that common either, so PNM's should not consider this as a viable alternative. Houses offer these bids to girls who dropped them or dropped out of recruitment, or who didn't go through recruitment at all. They almost never offer a bid to a girl they previously released. Therefore, dropping out of recruitment because you don't like your choices will not yield you any other choices than you had at pref.

Snaps and COB above is completely right. Snaps are rare now that UGA uses RFM (Release Figure Method) to tell each chapter how many women to invite back each round to reach quota. It looks at historic return rates for houses and how well they're ranking during recruitment to give them a number. Snaps usually go to women to dropped out before pref but got through round 3. I suspect DPhiE and Alpha Phi will COB this year since they are new and slightly below total at the end of Spring, but I don't think you will see a lot of other chapters with a lot of many spots to fill (and they will probably handpick women to extend bids rather than open invitation events).

The same thing just happened to me I just got a snap bid to a house that I genuinely wasn’t unable to form a connection, which is a dissapointing because there was another house I wasn’t hoping to get a snap bid from

Every chapter has over 200 women, and you likely only met a 20 or so of them during rush. There are so many more you might feel connected with, including the 60+ that will be in your pledge class. If you want to go greek, I'd encourage you to give it a shot and take the bid you were offered. You can always drop if they're truly not a fit midway through the semester.

Take that bid! This is a second chance, a RARE second chance, to join the house who WANTS YOU TO BE THEIR SISTER! If they invited you to pref, you were already on their bid list, so you are reading something negative into this that isn't there. They obviously wanted you then and were disappointed that they didn't get you, but they still want you now. If you ask me, it's a sign that you are meant to be there. If it truly doesn't work out you can drop before initiation and try again next fall. Give it a shot with a full heart.

Unless these houses offering you snap bids are like 50+ members under total, I don’t see any chapter just offering a bid to a girl for financial reasons. No House is teetering on such a thin line of financial security to offer a bid to just anyone. There were girls, however few, who were completely dropped from recruitment. Be grateful that any house saw you as a future sister, because some don’t get that chance. Some girls would be ecstatic to have the rare chance you face.

Alpha Phi trying to hype themselves up to seem desirable

Actually I was genuinely wondering if someone got a snap bid from them. No need to be rude.

Try to be more subtle with your self promotion. We see you alpha phi

Yes, I do know someone who was offered a snap from Alpha Phi. She attended them first invitational but ranked them low enough she did not have to go back later in the following rounds. She did not accept the bid because she wanted to see who else was going to COB and knows if Alpha Phi is offering snaps, then they will COB.

I don’t doubt that your friend got offered a snap but, but I will say that just because a chapter offers snapcbids doesn’t mean they’ll COB. They very well could find someone else to accept that snap and make quota. That being said, if APhi makes quota and is still below total they can choose to COB and I anticipate they will if that’s the case. But those two things don’t always correlate.

My friend received a phone call from Panhellenic asking if she would accept a snap bid from Alpha Phi. I can assure you she knows what a snap bid is. She dropped once she received her pref invitations, she knew this was a possibility. It's not like she was mean about it, she just wants to weigh her options.

Also, any chapter that is below campus total will most likely COB. So there will be a few chapters offering COB but it will be like one or two people and they will try to offer those bids this week and get them in the pledge class before the weekend's retreats.

Yeah but today right now it's snap bids. COB can't be until after bid day.

Doubtful, but no one really knows until House Total is recalculated later in the week.

They met quota so I doubt it. I think they usually like to take a few girls in the spring to replace their December graduates though

Both. Houses that only have a few spots to fill will do it low key and personally reach out to a few girls. Contact panhellenic immediately and tell them you are interested, but also try to find out which houses have a few spots after chapter total is established in the next week or so and reach out to them yourself..