What is a snap bid?

Look it up on the Panhellenic site on the COB page.

From the website

"Snap bidding ends when bids are distributed on Bid Day. Continuous Open Bidding (COB) begins as soon as Bid Day begins. Further, Snap Bidding is ONLY allowed for those chapters that did NOT match to quota in the bid-matching process of primary recruitment. The Snap Bidding process takes place before bids are distributed on Bid Day and eligibility is limited to women who participated in at least the first round of recruitment (I.e. Open House). Snap Bids are coordinated and extended through the College Panhellenic, prior to the distribution of bids and the start of Bid Day activities."

I’m an alumna so shoot me for being on GR but.....nobody ever talked or knew about snap bids before Greek Rank. Now all the PNM’s think they can drop because they don’t like the chapters they have left and they’ll magically get the unicorn of all bids - the elusive “snap bid.”

Newsflash - the rumors of who got a snap bid and which chapters didn’t make quota are almost always exaggerated times 1,000.

Repeat after me: YOU WILL NOT GET A SNAP BID. Do not make any decisions based on the impossibly small chance that the house you want will fail to make quota and that they will want you - out of allllll the PNM’s and other women who didn’t even go through rush - to fill that one magical spot in their pledge class. Just don’t.

In the age of guaranteed bids for every pnm who makes it to Pref (and signs a Pref card with all Pref houses attended) and Quota Additions, it is so very rare for a chapter to not make quota. Especially strong and middle recruiting chapters.