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Originally Posted by jwright25
Am I just way off base here?
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No, I think your whole post is 100% spot on.
Apparently the problem comes when the PNMs are told they can list only the places where they attended parties, even if they only went to those parties under duress and were told if they didn't they wouldn't be eligible for bids. If you get to that last day of pref, have given the other groups a chance and still HATE them, don't put them down, no matter what the rush counselor says. Write down the group that dropped you in first round who you don't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting into - anything other than getting stuck w/ a bid you don't want.
I think sometimes the insistence on this is out of a misguided effort to try and build up the smaller chapters, but I don't know how those chapters could feel any better about the fact that women were basically forced into pledging them - "well, if it's Xi Xi or nothing, I guess I'll take Xi Xi." In other words, it's detrimental to the chapters as well.