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On my campus you can list on your bid card chapters that you did not visit on pref night. We are a smaller campus, with 4 chapters, and total being 35. It is made very clear to girls that they may put down other chapters on their bid card but that it is unlikely they will get a bid from those chapters as they did not visit them on pref night. However, it does happen that a girl could get matched to her 3rd or 4th choice if she lists all the chapters, mainly because...One chapter on campus has a very hard time at formal rec't (for various reasons) and as a result has very low return rates. Last year they either didn't have or had exactly the number of girls needed to make quota coming to pref. They held one party where other chapters held 2. As a result, they don't have enough girls to make a bid list with the two columns full of names. Thus, they usually put girls they may have seen on the 2nd or 3rd night of rec't down on the off chance they're not matched. (The other chapters don't mind, b/c we want them to survive, and they usually end up with quota somehow) Even if the PNM doesn't list them on the bid card, they still get first chance at snap bidding that PNM. Usually the girls who put down more than the houses they went to on pref night are PNMs who either just went to one house, or who just really want to be in a sorority and will end up anywhere...and this did happen last year.
P.S. Yay for first post!
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