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At the end of the day, if a PNM goes through and maximizes her options in every round, she'll get a bid to one of the groups that she preffed - or even the ONE group she preffed, and that includes if she wasn't high enough to match at quota.

Today, PNMs just aren't going to give it a shot to see how it goes with a chapter they THINK they don't want. If they don't get the group(s) they want, they drop. NPC has been urging smaller campuses to use a total setting method to encourage growth - say largest chapter size instead of average chapter size or in some cases, largest chapter size PLUS. I think this is a move by NPC to keep chapter numbers up while enrollment numbers at most colleges are dwindling. Ultimately, it's up to the FSL to decide if they're going to use one of these total setting methods or stick with the average or median chapter size.

The other thing many campuses don't do well is rho gamma training and helping rho gammas deal with these women who drop because their schedule doesn't contain a top house. While rho gammas explain to the women that if you drop, you're not getting a bid now, they do tell them that informal recruitment is an option. And let's face it, at many schools, the informal recruitment option is for the groups that the PNM wouldn't go to, so now they feel they've been wronged twice. It's a tough time right now for sure.