[FuzzieAlum]

Most schools don't set quota until after the parties start, simply because otherwise there is no way of knowing how many girls are really rushing. For example, at my school there were five sororities, and we would hear that 80 women were rushing.

Great, so quota can be set at 16, right?

Not so fast. By pref party, maybe only 40-50 girls would still be in. (The rest mostly dropped out - they weren't generally cut from rush.)

Alright, 50. So quota has been set at 10.

Still, even this didn't work out too well - this last fall, for example, I believe two chapters took quota, one got about half that, another got two, and one got zero. If quota had been set at 16, it would have been entirely possible that only two sororities would have gotten quota and the other three would have gotten nobody.