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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I am so confused by this (and I was in a sorority in college!). I get the gist is that this is against the spirit of the rules and hurts the girls rushing, but I cannot follow this.

OP, where is your dd going to college? The process can be very different if you are talking Colgate vs UGA, for examples. [/quote]

I went to a different college and this isnt what dirty rush meant at my school either. At the school that I attended, dirty rush was when sororities wouldnt follow the rules panhellinic set out for fairness during rush. For instance sorority members werent supposed to socialize w rushees outside of the rush process during rush, so that the whole process was fair to everyone—everyone pledging got a chance to meet every sorority in the same way everyone else did under the same time constraints of one hour/party/day. At my school AOPi was the sorority with the prettiest girls and they would often dirty rush other hot chicks. Make sure the hot chicks met everyone outside of formal rush process, etc. [/quote]

Dirty rush as its used mostly means contact with houses prior to rush and possibly bid promising. The convoluted story about being told to suicide is not considered dirty rush but it is certainly against the rules.  If you suicide bid and don't get a bid, then you are eligible for COB and snap bidding after the end of formal rush. So i bet there are houses that use that as a way to ensure they get everyone that they want but certainly it is not the way its supposed to be done.

Most of the time girls do not suicide bid, but if you end up getting a bid from the house you didn't want, you won't accept it but then you can't participate in rush again until the next year. If you suicide and get no bid, you can do COB immediately after bid day so alot of girls do do that because they think they might have a shot at COB and don't want to miss out on a whole year before they can rush again. At UVA for example, last year, most of the houses picked up several kids via COB. I think only one house didn't participate.  My DD knows several friends who did COB and got into houses they had been dropped from during the formal rush process so it's a good option.[/quote]

I dont know what cob means, but when I rushed I was dropped by the sorority I really wanted and received a bid from one I did not want. I declined it, but the sorority I did want still had spots and I hadnt accepted the bid so I joined my pledge class that year, I didnt have to wait a year. [/quote]

Yep that’s COB, “continuous open bidding” but it depends the sxhool if you turn down a bid when you can rush again or do COB.[/quote]

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