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Originally Posted by DGTess
I don't understand quota, I guess. How can a chapter pledge more than quota? I thought quota was set as the maximum number a house could take.
Where can I find more about these terms? When I went through, no house was anywhere near total, and quota wasn't a term we even used. Every house rushed as few/many as it chose, and bid as few or as many as it chose, and some girls got five bids, and some got none. So I have no formal experience against which even to glean the knowledge from context.
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Quota is usually the max a chapter can take, however, with the new release figure system, Panhellenic is trying to make it so every woman that goes through recruitment is placed. This causes for most chapters to go over quota.
For example.....lets use Kent State as an example since I'm familiar with the campus and have been on this end there for 4 years.....
Say 190 women are participating in the last round of recruitment and there are 6 chapters. Quota would be set by dividing the amount of women participating by the number of chapters = 31
31 x 6 = 186 which means there are 4 girls left with nowhere to go....instead of leaving them out, Panhel looks at their choices and if they match with a chapter, they go to that chapter. This causes chapters to get more than 31 women.
Now there are always women who don't match anywhere....and they will ask the other chapters if they would like to snap-bid that woman. Snap-bidding is offering a bid to someone who was not on your bid list. This is another way chapters can get to quota. Chapters who are already at quota might not be offered the opportunity to snap-bid......however, in making it possible for all women to be placed, they might be.
Alright.....so I hope that helps.....if it seems confusing, sorry! Sometimes it doesn't make sense to me either!