These women don't have the self-confidence being petted about your great strength and OP skills from day one gives the strongest novices and accepted (like the wondergirls, with everyone fawning over them...), and the strongest sisters (as most of the deciders in the WT are... Siuan, Elaida, the Sitters, the AH...) are prejudiced that strength of character goes hand in hand in a natural way with strength in the OP. Those prejudices would shape how they look at those weaker women, make them feel about themselves and how they judge them (incl. if they're strong enough to face the Accepted test yet or not).