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Originally Posted by sherryanne

Is every chapter required to be at chapter total (thus do COB to meet that total), or is this a decision made by the chapter?

It's not neccessarily a requirement, but most schools like for chapters to be at total because that's the figure that's used when determining things like whether the campus should expand and invite a new chapter to campus. They also want all of the chapters on campus to be of reasonably equal size (no one is way bigger or way smaller than the others)

National HQ's like for their chapters to be at total because it means they're maintaining optimum membership numbers. Chapters themselves strive to be at total because that means you have as many members as you're allowed to have, which is a good thing.

However, chapters do not HAVE to COB to get to total if they really don't want to. It's in their best interest (in my opinion) if they meet quota to go ahead and COB to total, but there are chapters who choose not to (for various reasons).