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Quota is the number of new members that a sorority can bid and that number is set during formal recruitment, usually after pref. parties. A simplistic description is quota is the number of PNMs who sign a bid card divided by the number of sororities. If quota is 60, that is the maximum that each sorority can take during formal recruitment. Total is the maximum amount of members that a sorority can have. The only time that a sorority is allowed to exceed Total is when pledging quota would take their membership above Total. That is why you might see that a sorority has 180 members but total is 140. If a sorority does not pledge the quota amount, let's say for our purposes 60, they may continue to hold informal recruitment events until they met quota. So if ABC sorority gets 58 new members they can pledge 2 more girls anytime within the school year. If a sorority is below Total, they can hold informal recruitment events anytime throughout the year and offer bids to as many girls as they need to bring their numbers up to campus Total.