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Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby
I know of so few PNM's who get dropped from every chapter (and the statistics bear it out) at Illinois. My first thought was that this was an effect of having so many chapters, i.e. it's unlikely for a PNM to click with NOONE, but then other schools with a lot of chapters (Auburn, for example) seem to have a much larger number of women who are not invited to prefs.
Any thoughts on why this is? If I had to wager a guess, a lot of women at Illinois know nothing about the chapters when they get there (though maybe this has changed due to the internet?), and I bet there are very few who fall into the trap of going back to the SRCs for first invitational and having nothing later on, when they would have had a bid if they had considered other chapters.
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No way at all to test it - but the theory with Auburn (17 chapters) for example - is that women tend to have in mind or know more about 6-8 chapters (or have friends from 6 chapters) when they start recruitment. So they rank their top 12 after first round and everything is fine, but in between ranking their top 7 for skit and receiving 3 invitiations for prefs there is a mismatch between these 6 chapters they know about ahead of time and with which sororities are interested in them, because of cuts required by RFM.
The solution that several people have recommended is to think about it like college applications and to be sure to keep in your top 7 a mix of chapters.