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That was answered by #8 above but people don't seem to be listening...

Why does everybody think quota is by house size?

Using your example, most houses can't absorb 58 new members, or have that many openings.

To ?: Quota is the number of new members each house tries to take during recruitment. The "absorb" whatever number is quota. If it is 58 they take 58 or more. If there are 1000 girls and quota is 84, then they'll take 84.

Try to understand. Quota = openings. Openings/quota has NOTHING to do with the size of the house. Every house takes the same number of girls (quota) unless they can't get that many and then that's not good.

Houses "absorb" quota.

So each house takes in the same amount of new members regardless of how many are already in the house based on quota? If this is the case won't some houses keep getting larger and larger if they never lose members to dropping or transfers? Plus, a house with small numbers can only get as many new members as a house with with large numbers? Example, house A has 86 members, house B has 150, so they both get the same amount of girls from recruitment, i.e. "quota"?

All sororities lose a large number of seniors each year, along with some transfers and women who choose to drop. Every chapter gets to take the same number in Formal Recruitment, which is Quota. Panhellenic sets another number called Total. I'm not for sure, but I think Total is around 160 at KU.

If chapters are UNDER Total after Formal Recruitment, then they can get more members through open recruitment throughout the year. This helps give smaller chapters an opportunity to recruit more members.

A large sorority who is at or over Total cannot participate in open recruitment. The only opportunity for them to get new members is during Formal Recruitment.

Make sense?

Don't worry about it. You won't be dropped because there are too many PNMs. Trust me. You don't know what you're talking about and it's getting too hard to explain it to you. I'll try once more. There is no limit as to how many girls can participate in recruitment and receive a bid. The number the house gives bids to is 1/12 of the number of girls still here at pref.

Say it is 80 this year. Wow. That's more than the seniors who graduated and girls who are studying abroad. That's OK. Not everyone may get to live in, but it is what it is. Everyone here at pref gets a bid.

Houses who lost more girls and are smaller than "total" (a number set by panhellenic) can do open bidding during the year and pick up more girls. If the new member classes are exceptionally large, panhellenic will raise total so that the houses already at total and who lost the fewest numbers will still be legal. That will give other chapters below that number the opportunity to open bid a few more girls. They usually ask girls they already know who are not affiliated.

So there. You have it. No one is going to explain further. You don't need to worry, but if you can't understand why, just trust us on this.

Why are your responses so evil? I didn't write this post or the questions but just reading them I'm thinking omg are you all this way??