Cob / snap bid??

DO NOT COUNT ON A SNAP BID. Snap bids are very, very few. COB's will be given out by AXiD because they are still building, by DPhiE and a few other houses that need members.

A house that dropped you is not going to turn around and offer you a snap bid. Only houses that don't match to quota offer snap bids. Those are the houses that are not strong recruiters and likely the ones you decided you don't want. They will offer snap bids to pnm's they wanted who self-dropped.

Stay in the process and go to pref and then if you really don't like both your houses you can SIP or not sign your card at all.

Even if you can only see yourself ending up in one house, I’d recommend thinking about how you’ll feel if the house you like is 100% never going to offer you a bid in any scenario - basically take them out of the equation entirely to help you think logically about your other options. Would you be happier missing out on Greek life entirely as a freshman than to join a lower ranked house?

I personally chose not to rush as a freshman and joined my chapter through spring COB. Even though I love where I ended up (still a lower ranked house btw), I 1000% wish I had gone through fall recruitment since that first semester really is your best opportunity to bond with your pledge class. If you end up joining a sorority later on, it can really feel like uphill battle to “catch up” and be accepted as part of the group with your PC.

Something also to call out - a snap bid happens when a house releases too many PNMs/didn’t match with enough. It’s usually because of poor calculations on their end. Even successful houses can still COB - its possible those houses met quota/have a full pledge class BUT they were under chapter total for whatever reason (a heavy senior class that graduated, retention issues, etc). I do think COBs will be less this year with AXiD, and snap bids are rarer in general.

AXiD’s nationals are not making them fill quota even if they have to pay a fine. They are only taking girls they want. I wouldn’t count on a COB from them.

2 things: there’s a Panhel bid day quota and then a “chapter total”.

Panhel bid day quota is used to give the sororities a fair chance to be fairly close in pledge class number. It is very difficult to achieve a snap bid or cob depending on the house you pref and how many actives they still have after the spring of last year.

Enter “chapter total”. This is also used by Panhel to essentially average out the numbers based on total number of actives of ALL houses to make sure every sorority is around the same size. This gives houses that don’t meet the “chapter total” average to Snap Bid & COB.

Based on this, it truthfully depends on the chapter you pref and their returning numbers from last year! I know it’s a lot but I hope it helps :)