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<strong>Subject:</strong><br />Some good info after pref<br /><br /> Poster Message:
I’m all for sticking it out and trusting the process, but there are some things that panhel doesn’t necessarily explain as well as they could and it gets confusing. If you get two houses back and you know for sure that you absolutely would not accept a bid from one of them, then you should only put one house down tonight, which is called single intentional preference, or SIP. You absolutely run a huge risk of not getting your top house back, but again, if you know for sure you would not accept a bid from the second house then it’s better to get nothing because at that point you are eligible for snap bids and COB. If you put both houses and you get a bid from the second house and you drop then you are ineligible for COB and cannot re rush until next fall. As others have stated, snap bids are extremely rare, but in the past several of the houses will pick up a few girls in fall COB after bid day shakes out and a few girls either don’t accept their bids or drop. Many houses also do a spring COB. In the spring, there are usually only two houses that advertise COB, but many houses actually do take additions in the spring. The key is to start networking and get your name out there if that’s the route you choose to take. Again, this is risky, and there is no guarantee. Some people will tell you if you SIP you have a worse chance of getting the one house you put down. That is absolutely false. if you are on the list of pnms before they hit quota then you will get a bid from that house, period. Houses do not know if you SIP and they do not talk to each other about if you preffed some other house and didn’t put it down. If you only have one house for preference, and you list that house and sign the MRABA, then you will get a bid from that house. If you have two houses for preference and you put both of them down then you are guaranteed a bid to one of them. Bottom line is you should go to the preference round parties and have an open mind, but it’s important to understand the facts about what happens next