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Also, you have to keep in mind that during round 1, they have 25 minutes to make an impression. During that time, they meet a limited number of members. If they meet 5 women in 25 minutes, they still only met 3% of a chapter of 150 members. As I said earlier, with groups the size of the groups at Auburn, it's likely that any young woman would find a niche within any of the groups, it's also likely that those aren't the members that they end up meeting in those 25 minutes. The most intelligent, personable, and beautiful woman isn't going to "click" with each of the 150-200 members of a chapter. In a way, it's luck of the draw on who they meet and converse with for those first couple parties. Also, these sorority women are meeting so many PNMs in a short period of time with little time to get to know them, so even the most ideal PNM could get lost in the shuffle. There can be name mix ups, rushers who forget who was who, who were so nervous themselves that they got confused, etc. It's total chaos for them too. It's also nerve wracking for them.
When you add in release figures, cuts will be heavy earlier in the process than in the past. However, there are fewer disappointments during that last round and on bid day, because the chapters kept inviting the women that they really really wanted. If you have to cut 50-60% of the women who attended your parties, that can be a whole lot of women. In the end, if there are 16 chapters, each chapter can only take 6% of the PNMs. So, 94% essentially end up cut from (or PNMs have chosen to cut) each chapter by the time all is said and done on bid day. I can see how women can end up disappointed that way.
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