Thoughts/Views On Sorority Recruitment Processes

[shadokat]

There are two ways I know of to figure out what quota will be. The first is your simple number of PNMs divided by the number of sororities.

The second way is a little more complicated. But here it goes...

You need the following numbers:
Average % of women pledged
Number of potential new members
and the number of sororities.

Now, the formula is:
Quota = #PNMs (Avg. $ of women pledged)/ the number of sororities

An example:

Campus A has 100 women going through recruitment and five sororities participating. To figure quota with method one, you divide 100 by 5 and get 20. Simple.

Same campus, using quota method two (using 67% as the average number pledged):

100 (.67)/5 = Quota
Quota = 13.4

The reason that folks use the second method of figuring quota is that you factor in the idea that some women will drop out either before the end or after signing a bid, AND, there can be quota additions, snap bids, etc. after bid matching to help alleviate any women who go bidless.

Does ANY of this make sense, and is this the difference of how Michigan figured quota?