snap bids

thanks i was just wondering

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.

Was it KD? One of my friends received a cob from them today!

WTF is wrong with you? Go troll Alabama or something. Take your bitter ass somewhere else, seriously. You just have NO idea how anything works because you were dropped from everywhere during rush and you were so terrible, COB and AOPi didn't want you.

RFM makes things better. Before, top houses did not to take more members, because everyone only invited back whoever they wanted. If you're a middle or bottom PNM, you' wouldn't even get invites back later in the week because middle and too sororities had no obligation to issue them to girls they the did not want. You want proof? Go look at closure rates and chapter totals pre 2002 and post. You'll see a huge difference. Case closed.

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.

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!

This totally makes sense now.

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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.

Ha.

You're either in a bottom house or work in administration.

Top houses hate RFM.

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.

Sororities haze?

You are a horrible person if you truly believe this. Just because those sororities are not YOUR home doesn’t mean the girls in it don’t love it. Please take your toxicity and negativity elsewhere.