Quota?

[sundevil2000]

I was curious to see the quotas that different chapters have set for Fall rush. We just found out that our quota for Fall rush is 60 girls! We never have a problem filling qouta but we are already one of the larger chapters on campus with about 120 so some of us are dissappointed. Not that we dont love having more girls but its just that as a chapter gets bigger, the members tend to know each other less.

[IowaHawkeye]

we won't set quota until rush has already begun and the number of girls attending pref parties is know...

[CutiePie2000]

At University of Toronto in Canada,
quota in the past few years has been just 5.

[LeslieAGD]

We don't set quota til the third day of recruitment, but in the past few years, it's been between 10-15 girls.

[ZetaLuvBunny]

Quota here this year is going to be set on Philanthropy night (the night before pref.). Last year's quota was 36.

[ZetaLuvBunny]

I believe approx. 300 girls went through 7 sororities here the first night, but it dropped lower later on of course. We wait till later to try to prevent mismatches by only including the number of girls *still* in the system by the last two nights.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by sundevil2000
I think our quota has been set so high because we usually have a thousand girls go through rush and we only have 10 sororities here. Isn't it tough to go through all of rush and only get as little as 5 girls? How many girls go through rush at your schools?

U of Toronto...the numbers are pretty low because it is a commuter school and Greeks are not a big thing in Canada anyway. As for the 5 girls, yes, it makes some of the groups struggle a bit. A lot of the groups have better success through COB.

If you have 1000 girls going through Rush, and only 10 sororities...it sounds like your university is ripe to have some new groups to come to campus to help alleviate the numbers!

[FuzzieAlum]

Most schools don't set quota until after the parties start, simply because otherwise there is no way of knowing how many girls are really rushing. For example, at my school there were five sororities, and we would hear that 80 women were rushing.

Great, so quota can be set at 16, right?

Not so fast. By pref party, maybe only 40-50 girls would still be in. (The rest mostly dropped out - they weren't generally cut from rush.)

Alright, 50. So quota has been set at 10.

Still, even this didn't work out too well - this last fall, for example, I believe two chapters took quota, one got about half that, another got two, and one got zero. If quota had been set at 16, it would have been entirely possible that only two sororities would have gotten quota and the other three would have gotten nobody.

[greekwendy]

sundevil, quick question for you... does ASU have a new Greek Advisor?

Regarding quota setting... I'm a bit perplexed that quota has been set the semester prior to fall recruitment! As you can tell from some of the other posts on this thread, this seems to be a very unique situation. And there are some smaller chapters at ASU that are affected by this, I'm sure.

According to NPC guidelines (and I'm paraphrasing), quota is determined by the number of women acccepting at least one invitation to the first or second round of invitational events, divided by the number of Panhellenic chapters participating in recruitment.

A second option is a similar method, but factors in the number of women pledged during the past three years of recruitment.

There can be exceptions, but the only ones that can be made include the use of release figures or other unique situations approved by the NPC Area Advisor. You may want to bring this up with your chapter's Panhellenic representative and/or advisor. Especially if you are concerned that your group would be taking more women then they'd like. This could lead to large chapters getting larger, and small chapters getting smaller and eventually closing. That would be a shame!

Thanks for bringing this unique situation up for discussion!

[AGDLynn]

At UWestGa, it depends on how many PNMs go through Recruitment and make it to Pref. Last year, I think it was 21.

As others have said, the ability to pledge more than quota will depend on how close a chapter is to making chapter total.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Hey Sundevil! I think we got your old Greek advisor. Was Dan the Man at your school last year?

[aggieAXO]

I have never heard of a school setting quota before rush. What if a large amount drop out? It just doesn't make sense to me. I can definitely see where this would hurt the smaller chapters. I would encourage you as someone said above to talk with the greek advisor. I wonder what the smaller chapters have to say

[aephi alum]

At my school, quota was based on number of women attending pref. Generally it's somewhere around 31-32. I can't believe a quota of 60 - my whole chapter isn't that big - how well can you know all your sisters if your chapter is so big??

[xp2k]

I always assumed that quota was based on the size of the house that the girls were living and that they figured in the number of girls that they would be losing per year.

am i totally wrong?

XP2k

[33girl]

Originally posted by xp2k
I always assumed that quota was based on the size of the house that the girls were living and that they figured in the number of girls that they would be losing per year.

am i totally wrong?

XP2k

Yes. But not your fault, your school is weird (absolutely no offense).

Usually it doesn't matter if, for example, there are 3 groups and house A holds 70, house B holds 30 and house C holds 10...if there are 60 girls going thru rush, quota is 20 for everyone. As for the losing girls, if we would have said "we are losing half our membership, can our quota be higher?" the response would have been "tough s@#t."