Quota, House total and why they are important
 

I was reading in another post and decide to clarify some things.

Quota is set during formal recruitment. Depending on the school, all the women during formal recruitment after a certain party are divided by the number of houses and that is how quota is set.

After rush if a house has not yet reached quota they can COB.
If a house is at total and does not reach quota they can COB.

House total is set by each school's panhellenic. It is the optimum number of sisters each house should have.

If a house gets quota, but is not at house total they can COB.

Quota is important even after rush.
Say XYZ house gets 35 girls and quota is 40. House total is 100 and after the 35 new women they have 101... they can still take 5 more women. It may not matter at that moment, but when that is the graduating pledge class and all the other houses have 40 women it does matter.

Hope that helps some people.
This is only for NPC sororities, by the way.

Is "House Total" synonymous with "Chapter Total" and "Ceiling"?

Thanks for the good info!

Greek Love,
Jen

Yes, it is.

Thank you!
 

Thanks to you ladies for the clarification. I appreciate it! :)

Greek Love,
Jen

This is what happened at my school ~ though I don't know how closely they follow the green book.

Formal rush was held in the fall before classes started. A sorority that didn't reach quota during formal rush (whether or not they were over total) could snap bid until they reached quota. Snap bids could be extended for about a week after bid day ~ so sororities could try to fill quota, "replace" people who had declined bids, etc. COB's could not be extended during this period.

After the end of this time period, quota was no longer relevant. A sorority that had reached total (even if they hadn't reached quota in the last formal rush) could not COB. A sorority that had not reached total (even if they had taken quota in the fall) could COB until they reached total.