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I suspect it's terrible to have to release that many after first round and cut again by almost half after the second.
Someone who is the panhellenic advisor someplace really did walk me through how inviting back girls who weren't at your last party messes everything up (it's probably in one of the old recruitment threads from August or September), but maybe it could almost be like a waiting list for both sides: when girls who did go to second round indicate they aren’t coming back for third, either because they prefer other groups or because they dropped out, then girls who regretted with sincere interest who don’t have full parties could get the chance to go. Maybe this could happen for any group, regardless of previous return rates. Maybe there could be a way to "snap invite" back someone the group released if the group's returns failed to match previous projections and the girl had ranked the group high on her list. (Why do we let people snap bid girls they cut at the end of the process but not in the middle?)
I don’t think the girls should have to pick up groups they don’t want: I think that would hurt the groups. It’s nice for a girl to have full parties, but the groups need to be able to tell who is really interested too.
But that rare girl who gets invited back to second round everyplace at UGA cuts six houses after first party. She might not be at all interested in her bottom two or three, but I bet there wasn’t much difference between the chapter ranked 12 and the chapters ranked 13 and 14.
It’s one of the reasons why Carnation pointed out that it might be better to be cut hard after first because you don’t have to worry about accidentally cutting a chapter that you realize in hindsight you might have joined.
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