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Poster Name:
quota v total

Poster Message:
Chapters are allowed to bid to both quota and total. Quota is the number of women that they are allowed to take through formal recruitment. (Because of certain rules that promise everyone PNM who prefs somewhere a bid, some chapters get more than that. Those bids are "quota additions.") Quota is set by Panhel. The chapters also have a number called total. Total is also set by Panhel. It is the total number of members that a chapter is allowed to have, counting all of the members in all of the classes. A chapter can take quota, but be under total because seniors sometimes graduate early, students drop out before they graduate, or they had a bad recruitment two years ago. Whatever... After formal recruitment, the chapter is allowed to open bid PNMs until they reach total. Example: Total is 120 and quota was 30. Chapter ABC took 33 new members (quota plus 3 quota additions) during formal recruitment. They have 85 initiated members in the chapter. When the 33 new members are added to the 85 initiated members, they have 118 people in the chapter. They can give 2 open bids to get up to total.