Junior transfer rushing at Washington State University

[SigKapCoug]

Originally Posted by SoCalGirl

Since she wouldn't be there till spring, do many chapters COB?

She said she won't be here till Fall 2008.

But I wouldn't count on many chapters doing COB in the next year or two. It looks like a lot of chapters will reach total or over total this year through formal.

In the past, probably half the chapters have COB'd but the chapters that are larger and need only one or two spaces at semester to total don't advertise much because they obviously don't need to. I would say there are like 3 or 4 chapters that last year did a lot of COB, but as I said before I think this year will be different.

[WSUblondiE]

SigKap - just a quick question to clarify your last response...does that mean that some of the larger sororities will only be taking one or two new girls this year through formal recruitment?

(Sorry about all the questions - I'm totally new to this!)

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by WSUblondiE

SigKap - just a quick question to clarify your last response...does that mean that some of the larger sororities will only be taking one or two new girls this year through formal recruitment?

(Sorry about all the questions - I'm totally new to this!)

No, during formal recruitment, every sorority is allowed to take the same number of women. This number is called quota. There are various methods for determining quota, but usually quota = #of PNMs ranking after preference / # of chapters.

Informal recruitment/COB is for chapters that are not at total, the maximum allowable chapter size as determined by the Campus Panhellenic. They may give bids until they reach total. If taking quota during formal recruitment does not put a chapter at total, a chapter may give more bids to reach total. A chapter may exceed total during formal recruitment, as every chapter is entitled to quota. A chapter may not exceed total during informal recruitment.

[WSUblondiE]

Oh, I get it now! Thanks for the clarification!

[SoCalGirl]

I don't know where I got Spring from!