The other part of this puzzle is that your NPC Area Advisor will also make a recommendation to the FSA about what she thinks. The NPC Delegates of the three groups will also let their chapter know what they think. So it may be out of the chapter's hands so to speak.
Some groups require that their chapter follows their recommendations while other groups give a recommendation and let the chapter vote how they would like.
In the MOI page MR 13 gives you a whole slew of questions that should be answered as part of the total review along with recommendations of how to make the decision. It is a process - that is for sure!