I keep hearing people say it is "easier to get in as a sophomore than a freshman when the school has an upperclass quota." That does not make sense to me.
I would think that at best an upperclass quote allows sophomores to have roughly the same chance as a regular freshman. All the upperclass quota does is create spaces for upperclassmen - when some sororities traditionally took few or no new members that were not freshmen. But the number of spaces is based on the number of upperclassmen participating, right?
I’ve never heard that- from what I see on here it usually seems like an arbitrary number (like 5 or 10) or a percentage of quota.
It's based on the number of upperclassman just like the regular quota. It's just that there are so fewer upperclassmen going thru as a rule. At least that's my experience in the SEC - but you aren't really familiar with that...