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This is inevitable at my campus. Since PHA has been moving toward having little to no involvement in informal recruitment, they set a date where chapters can have parties and give bids (the same day). If your chapter waits to give bids until all of your open house and invite parties, "your" girls will have been snatched up by other chapters.

ETA: Almost always, the first few to get bids are women we already know, so it really isn't an issue of favoritism, but just of knowledge.