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Originally Posted by AZ-AlphaXi
the way I understand it .. is that a PNMs preference is to be honored until it is clear that it can't be. So sorority A fills to quota with out reaching PNM, it goes to sorority B.
Sorority B is 3/4 to quota but she's still not on their first bid list. It continues to attempt to match her at B until B fills to quota. - as women match to other chapters they come off of B's first bid list and the spot is filled by the person next on their second bid list. Once you make it onto a chapter's first bid list, you stay there until you match elsewhere (because the PNM ranked that chapter higher) or you match to that chapter.
in this case since she was matched to sorority C, assuming that everything was done correctly, she never made it onto the first bid list of either A or B or she would have matched there, it doesn't matter which one was ranked first or second.
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This is correct: A PNM cannot be matched to her second choice chapter until her first choice chapter has reached quota. Likewise, a PNM cannot be matched to her third choice chapter until both her first and second choice chapters have reached quota.
If all chapters reach quota before a PNM is matched, the PNM will either be a quota addition or considered to have been (and I
hate this term) "cross cut."
Quota additions are matched either by chapter size (smaller chapter getting priority for additions) or PNM's preference, depending upon the campus. Quota additions are interesting (to me, at least) because they are an instance where a PNM is more likely to get her first choice if she is low on the bid list of all of the chapters whose preference she attended. A PNM on the second bid list of each chapter she attends may end up with her third choice, while a chapter may end up with a quota addition who is the absolute last person on their bid list.