UT - El Paso and informal

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Originally Posted by TexasRose

I know so many people have asked similar questions, but hopefully this is okay since it's university specific. I have no greek contacts or relations, but since UTEP is a smaller college (I saw the quota last year was 14 women for the sororities, but I'm not 100% certain how many sororities there are) is it still a competitive school for rushing? I don't understand the recruitment process very well, but if a sorority reaches quota in the Fall, does that mean they won't take any new members in the Spring? Or will the quota process start over, or does a quota even matter during informal?

Quota has nothing to do with informal.

A chapter may reach QUOTA during formal recruitment and STILL hold informal recruitment in the spring.

However, once a chapter reaches TOTAL (the max number that Panhellenic says they can have in the chapter), generally speaking, they may NOT participate in informal.

So if a chapter reaches total during formal recruitment, they are not going to participate in informal because they have the max number of members allowed and can't extend anymore bids.