Campuses without total?

[seraphimsprite]

Hi,
I was just wondering how things work on campuses without total/ceiling. One of my friends was telling me this weekend about the campus she works on - everyone just does fall formal recruitment and if they match quota on their bid list, they're not allowed to recruit for the rest of the year. So even if they don't pledge everyone on their bid list, or they have a lot of seniors graduating, they can't rush after the fall. It seems that this would be problematic, especially for smaller chapters because even if they have half the members of the largest chapter, if they take quota during fall formal, they can't rush anymore. And if a chapter has a huge graduating class, they're basically screwed. Am I missing something? Does this system actually work?