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And I don't see how reaching your potential or acheiving things automatically means competition. You can reach your potential without stopping others from reaching their potential.
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How does competition mean stopping others from reaching their goals? There's such a thing as friendly competition. Yes, in some competitions, only one group wins (Greek Week) but in other competitions everyone can (formal rush). All I'm saying is we love to talk about sisterhood as if it was the only thing any of our organizations stood for, or the most important. It's certainly not the only thing; self-improvement is another big one, as is the success of the group, because you can't have any group values if you no longer have a group.
The NPC was designed to make competition for members orderly, period. Everything else came later. But that's not the same as saying it was designed to eliminate competition for members! The NPC is not and has never been about inclusiveness above other things. In fact, I'd say it's pretty far down their list. We are all assuming that the NPC wants us to be equally successful - but I've never heard anything like that from the NPC. The NPC exists so we can all get along with a minimum of friction and to forward the system as a whole. They're happy if a new chapter opens, but they don't care whose it is.
This might sound cynical, but the fact is the way GLOs are run is pretty far removed from the warm and fuzzy stuff of preference and pledging. It has to be, because we couldn't survive on warm fuzzy feelings.