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Quota was originally intended to help keep chapters close to the same size. And to set a time and place for recruitment so that people weren't running around snagging women from other groups during the year. (similar to how football was back before they had recruiting rules when people would go to another campus and literally grab a top player and convince him to come to the other school..and took him right then!)
Eventually it came to be seen that struggling chapters would just simply end up with fewer pledges and there would be large numbers left out when bid matching was done. Enter Quota Additions as at least a partial solution. But it was limited to 5% of quota so that still women were being left out at the end.
So now we have RFM which at least can find a place for all of them if there are no suicides who don't match. No limits on the number of QAs. Quota set where the most women are placed instead of being predicated on the number of women signing bid cards divided by the number of chapters.
Is it perfect? No, but it beats any system we've had before. And I'm sure as time goes on, NPC will continue to refine it and look for even better ways.
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