[KDMafia]

Wow, after reading this either my school's rules are much simpler or i dont understand them.
We have both quota and total, and we have informal recruitment in the fall, and formal in the winter. The way we do it is total is set at 52, when sororities go through fall rush they can only give out as many bids as they have spots before they reach total.
During spring recruitment we have quota which is set right before preference night and is the same for everyone. We have quota plus one which is where if, say quota was 20, your top twenty girls all put you down as their first choice, than you get the next girl on your list that put you down first. I have never heard of that actually happening on my campus. However, i do know that after spring recruitment we can not cob to reach total, you can only reach quota which is hard for smaller chapters who, even if they almost or do reach quota, could still afford to take more girls on.

Also jumping to an earlier part of this message, i agree panhell just kinda watches some chapters die and doesn't do much to help them, except encourage girls not to suicide them. But this doesn't work either. It was heartbreaking to see girls from XYZ get excited becausee they had a pledge class of two, just to hear the girls had dropped their bids when they found out who they got them from.