If you mean "hanging" in the sense of screwing it up, yes.

I say this in regard to competition. Lets take a campus that has anywhere from 6 like University of Houston, my old Alma Mater, and any one of the HUGE systems with 17 or more. One thing EVERY girl USUALLY knows is if she is a legacy or not.

At UH, everyone went after the same girls. The Greek system wasn't all that strong and the girls going through didn't have that "rush savvy" that many possess in a more competitive environment. So many people say, "Our recruitment numbers are low." PERCENTAGE wise, the motives for joining a GLO may differ at a school like UH than UGa but you STILL will have those that have very specific reasons and desires to join a particular GLO. However, I believe you have MORE girls (percentage wise) who haven't made up their minds that they MUST be an ABC in a less competitive environment.

Every campus has a few sororities that have a high retention rate
and a few that may not make quota. You also have the middle ground. If there is a girl who has the qualities EVERY sorority HIGHLY desires, it would seem reasonable that she will be invited to return to every party. This is where I would make an honest assessment of the true potential my chapter would have pledging this woman. This has nothing to do with the sisterhood or how the members value my chapter. It has everything to do with how this PNM values my chapter. If the PNM is a legacy to a chapter that she would value more, do you REALLY want to rank her above the girl who would love being in YOUR chapter.

I understand that we all want great girls to attend our parties-it makes us look good. However, when it gets to the point of inviting her to our Preferential Party, I would release her unless I was as certain as certain can be she was actually considering my chapter and not merely assuring herself of the maximum number of parties for each round. Sometimes you need to be brutally honest with yourself before you can see how to improve the situation. Filling your Pref parties with girls who you KNOW will end up in another chapter is wasting TIME and SPACE and unless things have changed, you may also be wasting your best rushers.

I honestly believe that good chapters make bad mistakes when they rank a highly desirable legacy over any number of great girls who are released when retention numbers come into play. Go for the real gold, not fools gold.