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Expansion is a healthy way for sororities to grow. S/he with the best presenting materials and presentation that best suits the university where expansion is being considered will win, period. I have seen campuses where the traditional "large" NPC sororities have chapters that are failing, and "smaller" ones have the most members and success; and vice versa. A lot of the chapters' success depends on the ability of the collegians to successfully recruit and retain a healthy and harmonious chapter. Field Consultants and all the funding in the world won't do much if the collegians are burned out, unmotivated and unable to get along within their chapter.
I know that as when I was freshman and a non-Greek, I couldn't tell the difference between a Tri-Delta and a Tri-Sigma. It was all Greek to me. I feel that NPC is fairly homogenous-- we share similiar values, missions and methods-- so it is only natural that the presentation the university officials felt was the best-- is going to be the sorority chosen during expansion.
I take issue with sororities who continue to dump time, energy and money into chapters that are operating at severe losses-- and refuse to close them despite 5, 10, 0r 20+ years of an inability to retain members competitively with the other chapters on campus. It isn't fair to the women in the chapter to keep it open-- they are constantly COB'ing and the same 5-10 are running the chapter and wearing multiple leadership "hats" while the rest of a dissenting group whine and moan about what Group "A" has compared to them, and refuse to cooperate with the national officers who come in to assist and "rescue."
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