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There are two numbers that determine how many new members a chapter can take: quota and total. Quota is basically determined by taking all the PNM's attending preference parties and dividing it by the number of chapters on the campus. Each house can take up to that many girls as new members. However, under RFM (the system most colleges use to place girls in sororities) every girl who attends all the preference parties she is invited to (doesn't suicide, doesn't drop out before preference) should get a bid somewhere, so if every chapter she goes to for preference filled their quota before they got to her name, she would be added to one of the houses she preffed as a quota addition, and that house might be a little over quota in that case. Total is the total number of members any chapter on campus is allowed to have. This is determined by panhellenic. If a chapter is going to have fewer members than the total even after they add the quota amount, they are allowed to give bids to more girls than that amount (bid up to total), so they may have a larger pledge class. Hope that answers your question.