explain cobs and snaps?
by: COB?What’s the difference? When do they happen and how long are they given out?
#1by: Snaps, COB explained
At the pref round, you will sign an MRABA card, on which you list the houses you preffed that you will accept a bid from. If you rank all houses you pref, you are guaranteed a bid to one of those houses. This is a binding agreement for one year. If you decline your bid, or accept and then drop, you are not eligible to accept another bid for an entire year. If you suicide and do not get a bid, you are not bound by the MRABA agreement. With that said, here is the difference between Snap Bids and COB:
Snap Bids - Snap Bids are only given out before bids are opened and the number of Snap Bids each house can give out is determined after the pref round and the bid matching process. Houses that match to quota do not snap bid. Sororities snap bid when they don’t have enough bids to match to quota, and may snap bid only girls who either suicided (only put down one house on their card) and did not match to that house, or girls who did not attend pref at all (dropped or were dropped.) The earlier you were released in the process, the less likely a house will be to offer you a snap, and there are only a few snap bids offered in the first place. It's best not to count on one. If you do get one and accept, you will go to Bid Day with everyone else and no one will know you were a snap unless you tell them. When regular bids go out there are no more snap bids.
COB (continuous open bidding) happens after Bid Day and any house that still did not bid to quota or is below the allowed chapter total may offer COB bids to any girls who were not previously offered a bid to any house (see MRABA explanation,) including girls who did not go through recruitment at all. As the name implies, it is a continuous process that may happen the day after Bid Day or could be delayed until chapter totals are adjusted for the New Member classes. It is up to each individual house as to how and when they offer these bids; they may reach out quietly to certain girls they know they want and offer bids or have invited events to get to know some girls better and then decide on offering bids. Or not.
There is some bad advice on this site from people who really don’t understand the way this all really works. It is hard to game the system. Don’t count on a snap or a COB. If a house wants you then consider that house. If you were cut early, you are not going to turn that around and get a bid from them. Weigh carefully if you are okay not being Greek at all. Snaps and COB’s are statistically much, much less likely for you than getting a bid through going to pref and ranking all your choices.
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But it very often ends up with girls saying that joining that house was the best thing that ever happened to them. More often than not, giving that house where you are WANTED a real chance will seal the deal. The stupid tier stuff pushed on this site is not real, and you only finally get the truth of that when you are actually in a sorority here. No one goes around ranking and judging entire houses, or puts us in a social pecking order. Individual people, oh yes, you will be judged, so pay attention to your own personal image.
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by: Disagree
I disagree with the not being judged part. You will absolutely be judged by the sorority you join. Top tier frats mix with top tier sororitys. Mid tier frats mix with mid tier sororitys. That is the reality. You join a bottom tier, you may love it and not care but you will be judged. No question.
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by: Thanks
Thanks for the explanation. It was helpful. I was worried if I suicide and didn’t match I wouldn’t be eligible for snap bids.
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by: ^
'Eligible' and 'likely' to get a snap bid are two vastly different things. You are far more likely to not get a bid at all if you don't get your suicide house. Be ready for that.
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by: snap?
by: snap
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by: Hmm
It would be rare but it could happen. I imagine there’s a lot of scrambling going on right now.
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by: Advice
Good explanation and advice except I think some girls get swayed by the excitement of bid day and don’t think about being in a house long term. Kind of like a bride focusing on the wedding day instead of the marriage. Accepting a bid from a house you’re not feeling great about can be an expensive mistake. There is nothing wrong with waiting, many girls find a home after formal recruitment.
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