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Actually qouta is great.
All the women's groups have a cetain number that they cannot go above...chapter total/ceiling, ours was 65.
Quota is the amount you can take during formal recruitment, ours has ranged from when I was a new member (32) to last year's (17ish...cannot remember).
Anyhow, it keeps all the groups at or around the same size.
Size is important for many reasons.
#1 we have houses and we need members to pay rent to keep the houses up and parlor fees, paid by every member, to maintain the houses.
#2 It keeps us on an even playing field. We are all capable of doing the same things b/c of money, # members for intramural games, greek week, philanthropy projects, panhellenic.....and so on.
#3 Quota is the amount going through that have made it to Pref divided by the number of groups...that isn't limiting at all. Limiting would be not using the number of girls coming through...100 girls would be divided by the number of groups...not 50 girls, the entire group should be placed!
A great example on my campus was all the fraternities. Some had 50 members and some as low as 10. Groups cannot do as much with 10 members as they can with 50 and it is unfortunate b/c some of the smaller groups are great, but rarely get seen b/c of numbers. We also didn't have an orgnized Fraternity recruitment either, so that made it a little difficult. Some fraternities were housed and some were not...that has alot to do with the amount of members you have to have.
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