"Taking someone else's spot"

[33girl]

I've seen the above several times in the past few days:

"I turned down my bid because I didn't like this group and didn't want to take someone else's spot."

"If you hate the sorority that much, drop because you are taking someone else's spot."

It kind of got me thinking: is this really true? It seems to be completely discounting the sorority's preference when saying this. If they liked someone else more, they would have put them first and offered them a bid before they offered it to the dissatisfied person.