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I find it interesting that this became a discussion about the system of quota...
For me I look at my own greek system which is big and very strong, however I wouldn't classify it as cutthroat. Comparing it to aforementioned schools that are big, strong, and cutthroat makes me wonder what the difference is.
What I see the difference as being is the importance of greek life at the cutthroat schools...Sorority affiliation as I understand it in the south is such a big deal to what girls see as their perceived future viability that to join a house that is not considered strong would be more damaging than not going greek at all. Girls have friends that they talk to and they do their research, and know where they want to go...
In my experience as a campus tour guide here at Nebraska, I find that most HS Seniors have no concept of greek life unless they have older siblings in the greek system, and Beta Theta Pi sounds the same as Gamma Phi Beta is the same as Phi Gamma Delta is the same as Delta Gamma is the same as Kappa Delta is the same as Kappa Sigma so on and so forth....(I purposefully chose fraternities and sororities to demonstrate my point). And since there is not this supposed alteration of future potential that goes along with joining a certain house, they don't have to know all the houses and what their ranks are.
Thus when most of the girls go through rush they have little idea of campus reputation, and they are allowed to find the house that fits for them. Since most girls don't know reputations of the houses, there is not a scenario in which 75% of the 700 girls that go through rush are all dying to get in to 3 or 4 houses, which seems to the case in those cutthroat schools in which the vast majority of girls are looking to getting in to few select houses.
And because those houses have so many girls that are trying to get into their house they have to approach rush with some way of letting those girls go...and so legacies and those with multiple recs are not given a free ticket to the later rounds.
In my assesment of the situations, this is not a question of quota or total. It simply comes down to the fact that there is such a perceived impact on one's future due to Greek Affiliation that girls are stuck having to figure out some way to reach the top houses so they don't miss their opportunity.
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