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I don't know if it is the same now as when I was there, but basically this was the way it was:
Out of the 1600 or so that go through 19-party in the Fall semester, 900 of those girls will get a bid. The vast majority of those girls will accept the bid.
What happens to the other 700?
1. Some of them will decide, after going through 19-party, that going greek isn't for them, and won't return for the remainder of formal rush in January.
2. Some of them will not be eligible for rush in January because they won't "make grades" (when I was there, you were not eligible to continue rush if you didn't make it above the grade cut-off for first semester. I think it was 2.5).
3. Some of them will drop out through the rest of rush because they don't get invited back to the houses that they like.
4. Some of them will not match with a house even when they make it all the way to pref night. Either they only had one house invited them back and didn't make it high enough on their list, they suicide pref and don't make it high enough on the house's list, OR they could even go pref night at two houses, list them both on their cards, and STILL not get into either one.
So, it is possible for houses to not make quota even though there are girls who didn't get bids.
I'm glad to read a few things: first, I'm glad it is only one house that doesn't make quota. When I was there, there were a hand-full that didn't make it. Also, I am glad to read that there are 900 girls who get bids. When I was there, the number of girls going through rush was a little higher, but the number of girls who got bids was even lower than 900. The number of "no bids", in my opinion was heartbreaking. And when I was there, the actives came to the dorms, and picked up their pledges (new members now, I guess). While the pledges were at bid night, actives decorated their dorm doors. A few years after I got there, they started having a bus deliver the pledges to the house. I was very glad. For the girls who did not get a bid, having a bunch of laughing, screaming, and chanting sorority sisters running through your dorm must have been very difficult.
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