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By the percentages

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More pnm's doesn't actually mean more competitive. Everything is done by percentages, not on hard numbers, and the percentages are based on the data from the past few years of recruitment. So yeah, it scales up with the number of pnm's, but there is not a set number of spots as an end goal. The more pnm's in recruitment means that more are carried from round to round, more will end up at pref, and more will get bids. And of course that means also that chapters have to release more each round, so it just seems like it's more competitive looking at only the hard numbers, but the proportionalities are the same as always. And the numbers for each round are adjusted based on the percentages depending on how many pnm's stay in the process by not dropping out. Quota is set only after pref, based on the number of pnm's signing cards. More pnm's signing cards means larger nm classes all around. The norm is actually to not get the max per round, the norm has always been less than that. But more pnm's are experiencing this, and of course not happy about it, but there's really nothing new this year and it's not more competitive. The formal recruitment system is not designed to eliminate pnm's from the process, it's the exact opposite.