Carnation,
I think I understand what you are saying, but the only "penalty" that I've heard of for SIP (at the type of school you describe where you have to go to all the events) is that you aren't eligible for QAs. Have you heard of other penalties?
To me, saying you have to go back to the max. you are invited to, but you don't have to list all the chapters on the bid card is about right.
As far as losing QA potential, we can't create a system where we try to allow girls to be matched to their first choice as long as they go to pref there or we'll be kind of throwing quota out the window, won't we?
So, short of matching everyone to her first choice after prefs, aren't we always going to be faced with girls having to decide between SIPing or facing the possibility that she may not like her second or third choice group as much?
Is there a way that you think it can be fixed? Or is it that you get a little tired of all the focus being on girls matching to groups, rather than matching to groups that they really like?
(I'm always impressed by the numbers of girls who do match at their first choices. They tend to be the vast majority, so at least that's good.)
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