I am really late to this thread but wanted to pitch in an idea about a chapter being at total and still doing formal recruitment thing.
I know that at W&L the total was set unnaturally low. It was at 70, which represents the "ideal size" the university would like to see for chapters but just based on two (much less four) quota-sized pledge classes the chapter would be at that. In fact some chapters were nearly double total.
One thing that was experimented with there was allowing groups that had already made quota either via formal recruitment/COB to continue COB up to the average chapter size. Which is a tough call at W&L since there are hardly any non-Greek women.
I'm not saying this was used at UGA; in fact it doesn't sound like it was. But it's a possibility that this would happen in some cases and solve confusion that people had.
Also, at big schools like UGA/UT/etc, a LOT of people graduate in December. That could be a factor too.
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