Quota +1?

Sunny · #1 08-27-2001, 07:56 PM

How can a sorority get quota +1 (or +4, or whatever)?? I thought that quota was the maximum number of pledges allowed, as dictated by panhellenic?

PenguinTrax · #2 08-27-2001, 08:41 PM

Quota additions are allowed by the NPC so that all PNMs may find a place with the highest ranked group on their membership selection card. The quota addition cannot exceed 5% of quota and will only be granted if the group in question followed the release figures guidelines set forth by their Panhellenic. Women that intentionally single preference or who decline a bid from another group are ineligible for quota addition.

dzsaigirl · #3 08-27-2001, 10:57 PM

I thought it just meant that you can pledge more people than quota if you have room in your chapter. So like if total is 100 and your chapter has 70 girls and quota is 25, you can take quota +5 ? I didn't think you could take additions if you were at total or over total after quota...

Am I right on this?

PenguinTrax · #4 08-28-2001, 08:15 AM

Since at larger schools attaining quota always guarantees that a chapter is over total, the reasoning that only chapters under total can take additions is incorrect.

According to the NPC Manual of information (summary):

1. No college Panhellenic can adopt a Quota Additions policy unless there is compliance with the recommendation for release figures.

2. Quota additions should first be used for chapters which are the smallest on campus. The PMN's name must appear on that chapters preferential list and the additions cannot exceed 5%.

3. No woman that intentionally single preferenced or failed to accept/attend an event for which there was room in her schedule will be eligible for quota additions.

4. No group may exceed quota by more than 5% of quota. If 5% is a fractional number, it will be rounded up to the next whole number.

5. Quota additions do not raise of increase teh number of quota and the process is only used during bid-matching itself.

dzsaigirl · #5 08-28-2001, 08:22 AM

Okay. At my school after every single semester, there is no sorority that is at or over total, so that is why I thought that. We have a small system here and just as many people graduate in December as graduate in May, so all the sororities see a lot of spaces open up.

Thank you.