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I would say it happens most often at schools with old, historic chapters or as Carnation mentioned, in states where a sorority has a large number of chapters. If I am understanding your question correctly DGTess (and I am in no way,shape, or form a math person, so take what I write here with a giant grain of salt) you are not understanding how with quotas as high as they are at some schools, how there could be x number of legacies equal to quota. We are talking about the number of legacies to ABC at the beginning of recruitment, not the number that will end up being invited to ABC prefs.

As Carnation said, some of those legacies are not going to be invited back to their legacy house for prefs, or the legacies are not enamored of their legacy chapter and they choose not to return there. Since many sororities require legacies attending prefs. to appear on the first bid list, or at the top of the second bid list, some legacies will not get invited back. If there were "free legacy" choices, it might be a different story, but legacies do not garner a special category (like upper class quotas at some schools) so those little pnm fishies are all swimming in the same pool.

There really can be 60 legacies to ABC that start out at Big State University, and if they were all kept through prefs. and had to be placed on the first bid list per ABC's national policy and quota was 55, there would be 5 legacies without a bid, and not doubt, the chapter would have hell to pay.