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Originally Posted by CookiesNCream
Not once did I imply that Theta Phi and ASA should take all of the "rejects" who don't get bids from other chapters. But, since space to house women isn't an issue for them, I was curious as to why their quotas were lower than expected. They can very well pick and choose who they want; I'm sure that out of the 300 or so girls who went unmatched this year that there are girls who preferenced both chapters and didn't get them back.
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It's not just space to house a new member class. You have to have the resources to run that new member class. That means you need the money for new member education materials, money for new member bling, enough women to be their bigs, enough space to run new member retreats, etc.
Taking a wild guess at this, I'd guess that those two groups may have planned a quota based on the average of what people took last year. I know with the KD colonization at WUSTL, we've been looking really hard at what other groups do and trying to match our group's performance to the campus norms as much as possible. The numbers are higher for some groups this year because they are doing the right thing and trying to open up more spaces for qualified PNMs, but they didn't tell anyone else their plans and those two groups didn't plan or budget for a higher total.
One of the advantages of a total/quota system and RFM is that it's pretty easy to predict what the next year will bring. Total and quota don't move around that much from year to year.