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Certainly, the role of hometown connections/locality can't be discounted. Not only are these chapters making huge cuts at this stage, they also have a vested interest in bringing in girls who will stay connected and loyal to the house as local alums.
Please know that I am not saying that women from out of the area cannot be loyal alums--far from it. But there is indisputable value in a person who is from the area, whose family roots are in Alabama, and who could be a contributor to the chapter someday, not only from a financial perspective, but also in terms of the alumnae network and advisory boards. I don't think that the collegians think this far ahead of course, but the mindset for getting the local girls sorted out geographically and certain towns represented in the new member class does go along with this idea of keeping it regional, and then, from certain regions preferably.
I definitely saw this going on at LSU with many of my classmates from HS. They all tended to get into the same 4 houses.
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