[FuzzieAlum]

I would discount that rumor about making girls go alum! For one thing, it wouldn't make them any larger, and it might even make them smaller.

Ceiling (or total) limits the total number of girls that can be a member of any chapter. The only way to go over that is through formal rush. Let's say total is 50, and quota is 15. Even if the chapter has 49 girls going in, they can still get quota and go over to 64, but then they are "stuck" until their numbers drop below 50 or the next formal comes around.

But let's say they "force" someone to go alum, however that is done. Let's say they make ten girls do it before formal. They're down to 39 then, and they get 15 through formal (which would be harder to do anyway with fewer girls to rush), they would end up with 54 - still big, but not as big.

Even if the best scenario they could at best replace the girls they alummed, so they wouldn't end up larger but the same size. And why would they prefer "new" girls over "old" ones? That doesn't make sense.

This sounds like the kind of rumor some unkind sorority started to hurt another, or an misunderstanding of an explanation. It's entirely possible a chapter lost several girls. However, as an outsider you'll probably never find out why, and if you do that's bad PR on their part, since chapter troubles should be chapter business.