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Originally Posted by Soliloquy
Oh and I think I remember reading someplace that cross-cutting is a myth. Would I be correct in that assumption or can it really happen?
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It depends on what you think "cross-cutting" is. It is possible to:
1. Be released from all chapters on your campus before preference.
2. Not match due to suiciding.
3. Not match if you were low on all chapters' bid lists and your school does not guarantee a match for women who maximize their options through quota additions.
It is NOT possible for the outcome of matching or not matching to depend on the order of your listed chapters (assuming maximized options). For example:
Say a PNM lists Alpha first, Beta second, and Gamma third. She is very low on Alpha and Betas' lists but high on Gamma's list. The "cross-cutting myth" is that she won't be matched because of the order in which she listed her chapters. In this case, the PNM would match to Gamma regardless of whether she listed them first, second or third. When I say the PNM is "very low" on Alpha and Beta's lists, I mean that they fill quota before getting to her name on the list.