What Is Cob At Umich?

Continuous Open Bidding.
Continuous Open Bidding (COB) is an informal process in which eligible chapters are permitted to host recruitment events. COB occurs during the fall and winter semesters and serves as an opportunity for women to join participating National Panhellenic Conference sororities and our associate member sorority.

What is a cob in a sorority?

What is Continuous Open Bidding (COB)? Continuous Open Bidding is a very informal process that sororities use to take in new members. Unlike formal recruitment, there are no silence rules, no long days of going from party to party, or complicated invitation acceptances.

What does cob stand for in recruitment?

Continuous Open Bidding
“COB” is short for Continuous Open Bidding, a form of informal recruitment that sorority chapters can participate in at any time outside of primary recruitment. Most people think that COB only happens the semester after a school’s primary recruitment (formerly known as “formal recruitment”).

How does the cob work?

The COB Process:
Ensures claims are paid correctly by identifying the health benefits available to a Medicare beneficiary, coordinating the payment process, and ensuring that the primary payer, whether Medicare or other insurance, pays first.

What do you wear to a cob sorority?

COB is much more casual than formal recruitment. Most girls wear jeans and a cute shirt or a simple dress. Think like a first date.

How long is the COB process?

Sororities often spread out the timing of COB events to help increase the number of women who can attend. So, you might find the time frame ranges from one week to several, depending on your campus and the sororities on it.

How do you get cob?

Cob is a mixture of approximately 1 part clay, 4 parts sand, and 1 part straw.

What is a cob position?

A chair of the board (COB) holds the most power and authority on the board of directors and provides leadership to the firm’s officers and executives. The chair of the board ensures that the firm’s duties to shareholders are being fulfilled by acting as a link between the board and upper management.

Can you Cob multiple sororities?

You’re limited on the number of sororities you can meet through COB and potentially get a bid to. The number of bids a sorority can give out are more limited in number than formal recruitment.

What does a cob analyst do?

The COB & CM Lead Analyst develops and manages security and or COB solutions for multiple functional areas. Subject matter expert in at least one security and/or COB technology or policy discipline.

How do sororities decide who to give bids to?

This matching process is called mutual selection.
Mutual selection starts with Panhellenic looking at your voting and the scores the sororities gave each potential new member. Then based on these lists, they optimize the best schedule for you! This optimized schedule gives you the most options.

Why is COB needed?

The Purpose of the COB Process
As per CMS, the COB process is designed to fulfill the following purposes. Correct Payment of Claims: COB ensures that there is no discrepancy in the payment of medical claims. This is done by identifying the Medicare beneficiary’s health benefits and coordinating the payment process.

What is a cob fee?

COB is a provision that says your insurance company will review and pay your claims only after the primary payer, has paid its portion of the bill. While COB benefits are intended to limit administrative costs, a primary payer is the patient’s last connection to the health care system when all claims are paid.

How many girls rush at Umich?

Almost 1,200 women participated in primary recruitment this semester, and each sorority except Phi Sigma Rho, which participates in an alternative recruitment process, added about 60 new members, according to Skaggs.

What is a cob event?

Continuous Open Bidding, COB, is a way for Panhellenic sororities to add a few women to their sisterhood throughout the academic term. It can be very casual, unstructured, and since not every sorority participates, it is not easy to tell which sororities will participate in a given semester.

What happens if you don’t get a bid on bid day?

Does everyone get a bid on Bid Day? In short, no. It is rare, but some girls will make it all the way through Preference Night and still not get a bid. However, women who do not get a bid are eligible for COB, which can occur at anytime after formal recruitment.

Can you decline a sorority bid?

Some recruits pull out of the recruitment process during rush week. Though less common, others decide to reject a bid. You may decide you don’t want to join a sorority at the last minute or you didn’t get the bid you want. Some schools restrict you from rushing for a year if you reject a bid.

Can you rush a sorority twice?

If you want to go through sorority recruitment again, you NEED to drop your sorority. If you go through initiation, you are NEVER allowed to join another Panhellenic sorority.

How do sororities score you?

A lot of sororities give potential new members an initial score. This score is based on several different items like your GPA (largest emphasis of your initial score), if you have a recommendation letter, if you are involved, if you are a legacy etc.

Why is it called a cob?

According to Wikipedia, the word could have originated as a variant of cop, meaning head. Cob could also have come from the English word cot for cottage, the Welsh cob for top of tuft or the German Kuebel, a large container.

Why are they called cob?

“Cob” is an old name some people gave to spiders. Generally we call them cobwebs when “old” spiderwebs collect dust and debris in them and no longer have a spider active in them.