snap bids
by: disappointedpnmThis morning when i recieved my bid I thought it over and dropped them. I know, kind of rash, and every girl in a sorority tells you not to do this, but this was a house I had tryed to drop every day, so I just couldnt see myself there. So now I'm wondering, are snap bids possible at a&m or are they truely a myth?
Commentby: So
Sorry girl! Hang in there!! You can always try again next year. However, some houses have a once cut always cut policy. There are other orgs to be a part of at A&M.
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#3by: Another Flaw with RFM
by: disagree
She wasn't going to make a "top tier" house anyways, otherwise, she would have received a bid. She wasn't rated high enough to make the cut. They weren't interested in to begin with.
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by: GoGreek
Top tier houses don't hate RFM. Quota has been calculated the exact same way forever - the number of pnms with pref invitations divided by the number of chapters. Consider this:
Pref night attendance pre-RFM:
Top house - 90
Mid house - 85
Bottom house - 45
QUOTA = 73
17 girls from top house Pref don't get bids anywhere ("cross cut"). 12 girls from mid house Pref don't get bids anywhere. Bottom house misses quota by 28.
This is why A&M lost so many chapters in the 1990's (AGD, Phi Mu, & Alpha Phi all closed within a 5-7 year span). They kept missing quota by a ton and just became so small they either couldn't afford the house they had or could never afford to build. It weakened the entire sorority system to lose almost 1/4 of the chapters that rapidly.
Pref night attendance post-RFM:
Top house - 90
Mid house - 90
Bottom house - 78
QUOTA = 86
4 girls from top & mid Pref are added as QA's to those pledge classes instead of being cut completely (90+4). Bottom house either misses Quota by 8 vs missing by 28 or is able to snap or COB to Quota.
RFM means the competitive chapters can stay big and the weaker chapters aren't as far behind the pack as they once were. As a result, no chapters have left A&M in 17ish years. This is a GOOD thing for everyone!
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#4by: Snap bids are real
To the OP:
So snap bids are definitely for real. But this is the rub, RFM--the software that the admin LOVES, forced you to take a bid from a bottom tier house--either take it or 'see ya'. Consequently, you couldn't be offered a snap bid from one of the houses you would have loved to pledge. The house needing to fill quota with snap bids, would have loved to have had you.
Flawed system.
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by: again
by: ?
The system isn't flawed. It's wonderful. The "flaw" you identify (accepting a bid from a lower sorority) only applies to a girl who has a low house and a higher house for pref AND who doesn't rank high enough in the higher house to get a bid from them. If the higher house wanted her, she'd be in that house. If not, she ends up getting a bid from the lower house. There are very few snap bids extended so it really isn't much of a factor.
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by: wonderful?
Ha.
You're either in a bottom house or work in administration.
Top houses hate RFM.
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by: Arkansas DDD
We are giving out bids soon. A lot of tops chose other houses, it happens everywhere. Gives us a chance to get great girls that were overlooked during recruitment.
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by: disappointedpnm
thanks i was just wondering
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