NPC Recruitment and Chapter Listing: Fall 2024-Spring 2025

[TLLK]

Originally Posted by Cookiez17

Penn State might be moving to variable quota for the upcoming recruitment.

Hi. I am unfamiliar with "variable quota" so would a more knowledgeable member please explain?

[Cookiez17]

Originally Posted by TLLK

Hi. I am unfamiliar with "variable quota" so would a more knowledgeable member please explain?

Okay. A set quota would be "each house takes 50 girls." Variable meanwhile allows houses to take girls based on their own internal total in accordance to campus total. So if a house is under total, they can take more than the set quota to not only catch up but also to avoid as much COB/informal recruitment as they would need to if there was a set quota. Penn State currently has 18 (!) houses and a lot of them are at various sizes, so I feel like in this scenario it could work.

[blueGBI]

Originally Posted by Cookiez17

Okay. A set quota would be "each house takes 50 girls." Variable meanwhile allows houses to take girls based on their own internal total in accordance to campus total. So if a house is under total, they can take more than the set quota to not only catch up but also to avoid as much COB/informal recruitment as they would need to if there was a set quota. Penn State currently has 22 (!) houses and a lot of them are at various sizes, so I feel like in this scenario it could work.

PSU has 18 PHC sororities, actually. but two of the newer groups are very small compared to the majority of the chapters there. I think they may do this to help the smaller chapters grow.

[Cookiez17]

Originally Posted by blueGBI

PSU has 18 PHC sororities, actually. but two of the newer groups are very small compared to the majority of the chapters there. I think they may do this to help the smaller chapters grow.

Yeah I saw the grade report from this past spring (can be viewable from the community scorecard https://studentaffairs.psu.edu/depar...nity-scorecard)

Most of the chapters have totals between 130-165, which is the highest chapter number. Meanwhile, 2 houses are under 100, so I feel like this can help them a lot.