Expansion question

[TSteven]

Hope this is the right forum for this.

After reading the threads about expansion, it seems that most new NPC chapters extend bids to all classes to "best match" the other chapters on campus and as such, be competitive as soon as possible.

So how should a new sorority go about recruiting members to be as competitive as possible right away? And are there any NPC guidelines that allow for a fair playing field? Is it the campus PC that makes the "rules"?

For the sake of discussion, lets use the following scenarios. (hope this makes sense)

~new chapter ABC
~5 chapters on campus: 4 current and ABC
~past five years, 120-125 girls attend preference round so quota has been around 30 to 32; predicted future new member classes at around 25 (125 divided by 5)
~chapter total is 100 but all have been over and have membership at least at around 120 (30 members per class)

So if ABC was only able to bid to total, then ABC could only have 100 girls while the other four would all have at least 120 members. Thus, can ABC extend bids to more than total to match in size the other four? Or perhaps this might be a better question. Is there a formula (real or perceived) used that allows ABC to be competitive with the current chapters? And if so, what might that be?