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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At UMD, some sororities also participated in “dirty rush” by telling PNMs to suicide their house (only rank that one house), knowing that they girls weren’t high enough to get a bid.  Then they would contact them under the guise of COB (continuous open bidding) and snap them up.  It was a way to ensure they got all of the girls they wanted.  Unfortunately, some girls always went that route and then didn’t get the bid later on, and they were usually the ones who invested so much into that one particular house that there wasn’t another house interested.  [/quote]

NP and I don’t know what any of this means.[/quote]

Sororities can only take X number of girls - determined by PanHel (and by chapter sizes).  If they like X+10 girls, they tell those extra 10, to whom they won’t be able to give bids on bid day, to suicidal their house, thereby leaving them without bids on bid day.  Then the COB process begins post-bid day and they are free to give out additional bids.

Problem was they sometimes changed their minds about how many extra girls they wanted post-bid day.  So some girls who threw away other opportunities (when I attended, you went to three houses for preference) ended up with no bid anyway (whereas had they no suicided the house, they may have received a bid from one of the other two houses).

I was just mentioning it as one of the ways girls can not get bids (in addition to the other avenues).  [/quote]

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