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Originally Posted by irishpipes
Anyway, I stand by my phrasing of "falling victim." I like the new release figures and support using them, but they are absolutely intended to make things easier for the weaker chapters, which consequently makes things more difficult for the stronger ones.
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Are the new release figures absolutely intended to make things easier for the smaller chapters?
I agree that they completely cause the effects that you described: harder on the big, easier on the small, but I really believed that the biggest intention was to allow the most women to find chapters.
Before release figures, groups could carry many times the number of women that they were likely to give bids to all the way through prefs, if they wanted to.
And I know groups release anyone that they wouldn't really want as a sister before prefs, but not being forced to make huge cuts still meant that some groups invited way more women to prefs than they needed, and the PNMs had no idea that they were just "extra."
So what I'm saying is that although it does make it harder on the strong groups to make quota than a less regulated system does, if we really want to be "panhellenic" about it, we should probably acknowledge that it's about overall placement for suitable women into groups, rather than simply leveling the playing field for the groups. Basically, it's as much about the PNMs success as group success.
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