Quota, House total and why they are important

[ilovemyglo]

I was reading in another post and decide to clarify some things.

Quota is set during formal recruitment. Depending on the school, all the women during formal recruitment after a certain party are divided by the number of houses and that is how quota is set.

After rush if a house has not yet reached quota they can COB.
If a house is at total and does not reach quota they can COB.

House total is set by each school's panhellenic. It is the optimum number of sisters each house should have.

If a house gets quota, but is not at house total they can COB.

Quota is important even after rush.
Say XYZ house gets 35 girls and quota is 40. House total is 100 and after the 35 new women they have 101... they can still take 5 more women. It may not matter at that moment, but when that is the graduating pledge class and all the other houses have 40 women it does matter.

Hope that helps some people.
This is only for NPC sororities, by the way.