FuzzieAlum,
What do you think could be done to help the smaller chapters?
It sounds like greek life is suffering anyway in the current system at your school. There's been a lot of debate so far about whether having quota is helpful or harmful. It almost seems like if NPC didn't have quota, then the smaller chapters would suffer because PNMs wouldn't be so encouraged to look at all of their options and where they would really feel the best, instead they would want to follow the crowd. Let's face it, college is intimidating at first and all you want when you're first there is to fit in somewhere just like high school. It's a lot easier to want the same thing everyone else wants.
A lot of people have mentioned that having quota hurts the smaller chapters, but how would you suggest helping them to grow?
I'll admit, I'm not convinced that quota isn't a good thing. My chapter consistently gets quota, so having it kind of hurts us, we could be much larger. But the smaller chapters at our school would suffer from not having quota, or at least I think so, and I don't want to see them fall apart. They may do very poorly in formal recruitment, but at least they're not wiped out by the larger chapters.
The unfortunate part of this situation is that girls that could be very happy in the greek system don't get the chance because they're number 21 out of a 20 quota system, or they never even try because they hear of how many girls don't get bids becuase they weren't matched. It's sad when 120 girls sign up for rush and only 23 get bids.
I understand that the system may not work perfectly at all schools, but what is another option?
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