[stargirl725]

Actually, any girl who was a quota addition would, under guaranteed placement, have gone to a chapter that made quota and would have just been a quota addition somewhere else.

The purpose of quota plus is to reward those who make it through to Pref at the maximum # of houses. Those rushees are guaranteed a bid. So if Susie Rushee prefs at ABC, DE, and FGH, but isn't high enough on any of their bid lists to match there, she still gets a bid to one of their houses.

Quota plus actually isn't great for the pledge class either. If your university explains quota plus to the rushees the way mine does, all the girls will know exactly what being a quota addition means. Then, if quota is 30 but your pledge class is 34, you wonder "okay, 4 of us were basically shoved down ABC's throat. What if I'm one of them?" Sure, the chapter had to want you there if you preffed there, but most girls don't figure that out until they do rush on the other side.

It just doesn't seem like a fair system. IMO, a Panhellenic that allows most chapters to take quota plus when one or more are really struggling is just kicking those chapters when they're down.