Avg size sorority over 100! - Page 2

texas*princess · #16 08-17-2002, 11:12 PM

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Originally posted by pbear19
This is a quote from the panhellenic website for my alma mater: "Over 600 undergraduate women are members of the one of five National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) sororities that have established chapters here at Truman."

So the NPC chapters have just over 100 members each, and this is at a small school of only 6000 people. I've always thought that seemed strange compared to schools of a similar size. So is it just me, or are those really large chapters for such a small school?

That is quite big for such a small school... my first university has about that many students, and average chapter size for fraternities & sororities is about 20-25 ppl !

AlphaSigLana · #17 08-17-2002, 11:21 PM

WOW-- even the fraternities are big? At the University of northern Co I know 2 fraternities that have between 13-18 members! I think they would love to do a social with a sorority that has a 100+ girls(LOL)

texas*princess · #18 08-17-2002, 11:30 PM

LoL yea I bet they would love it!

CarolinaDG · #19 08-18-2002, 02:37 AM

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Originally posted by chloe173

Haha, true! I know the DG's at USC have more members than my graduating class! As for the meetings, ask me again in a few weeks!

DUH! They hold them at a big long table! Haven't you seen LEGALLY BLONDE? And Reese Witherspoon stands at the front... Just kidding, but seriously...

This USC (Carolina) has total set at 100 for the moment, but sororities range from around 80-150.

aephi alum · #20 08-18-2002, 10:50 AM

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Originally posted by chloe173
USC's (Southern Cal) are all around 200-250, I think. Quota last year was around 60.

Ye gods

xo_sue is right, that's bigger than many high school class years! Not to mention that with new member classes that huge, initiation must take a week or so, lol

Total at MIT is 80. Back in the day, quota was around 30-32, and 4 out of the 5 sororities would come out of rush with around 100 members each (sisters + new members) - AEPhi is smaller with around 30 members. They're going to deferred rush, so we'll have to see what happens... hopefully all sororities will grow, since they will be holding fall informal rush to replace their new graduates, then hold formal rush in the spring.

Betarulz! · #21 08-18-2002, 08:18 PM

At Nebraska almost all the sororities are in the 90-115 range, while the fraternities are in the 65-90 range.

heatherzeta · #22 08-18-2002, 08:33 PM

At LSU, the smallest sorority chapter's average size is around 150, but two have 220+... but those both have an allowed inactive status, meaning that members can pay dues but are not required to attend meetings and hum drum activities. Let's you basically drop attendance but obtain alum status.

jayhawkkerry · #23 08-18-2002, 08:59 PM

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Originally posted by kdonline

I'm not sure about the other schools in FL: Univ. of South Florida (Tampa), Univ. of Miami, Florida International (Miami), & Florida Atlantic (Boca Raton). The last 2 probably are not that large, as their NPC's are relatively young.

University of South Florida's sorority chapters all average above 100. In addition, all sorority chapters at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University average above 100 members.

Kerry

bruinaphi · #24 08-18-2002, 10:20 PM

The following chapters in my region (Southern California, Arizona and Colorado) have totals (or average chapter sizes) of 100+:

UCSB (100)
UCLA (115)
USC (total is 115 but most chapters are returning b/w 100 and 150 and I think there are only two chapters on campus that we over 200 after fall recruitment last year).
Loyola Marymount
U of San Diego
Arizona State
U of Arizona
CU Boulder

Laura

aprilxo · #25 08-18-2002, 11:29 PM

Nope, fraternities at Truman are not that big (100s), but yeah the sororities are--mainly cuz while there are 5 sororities (used to be at least two more NPC there that folded), there are something like 18 fraternities? Been a while since I counted, but that lowers the average fraternity number quite a bit. We're also talking about a school where there is something like a 2:1 female:male ratio, so that ups the ladies' numbers a bit too.... I had yet to see another person who had graced the presence of Truman State University Campus

... I was going to comment on TSU's being normally around 100+ since at my current university (UMR) there are only 3 sororities and the total is 65 (which, I might add, Chi Omega hits nearly every semester

) Here we're talking a 1:5 female:male ratio... quite a different story

The only thing to do in Kirksville is be Greek, it seems... there are also high numbers of people from major cities, namely St. Louis, Chicago, and Kansas City (most people you ask would be from one of those three areas)--it seems there are strange factors that make the greek system so big there for such a small school *shrug*

Here fraternities have a pretty big range it seems... some have 10 or less, others have somewhere around 70-80 (like Phi Kappa Theta! woohoo!) The stronger houses seem to stay strong, while some of the weaker ones somehow manage to stick around year after year despite low numbers, so at least they aren't folding...

Oh yeah, there was a thread about Greek Advisors a while back and I complained about ours (said some mean things about here) but I would just like to comment that she is SO *GONE* now! Not sure why, but she mysteriously left for another school...

greek love,
april

maggieaxid · #26 09-21-2002, 08:50 PM

Elon has a little over 4,000 undergrads. Most of the sororities are around 100 before rush in the spring, after rush, usually about 100-115. Most of the Fraternities are about 40-60 members.

WhiteDaisy128 · #27 09-21-2002, 09:53 PM

North Carolina State University just figured the average at 111. DG is colonizing this semester and are going to offer 120 bid right from the beginning.

ZTAngel · #28 09-22-2002, 11:49 AM

UCF actually averages from 100-190 women in a chapter.

Tom Earp · #29 09-23-2002, 05:38 PM

This is the exact thing I was talking about!

Why not expand the Organizations!

How in the world can you know that many Brothers/Sisters in a single House!????

It is BS!!!!!!!

Im the Biggest ergo Im the best! What a load of Crap!

We as Greeks shoot our own selves in the foot because of things like this!

I would love to see more Fraternity and Soroity Orgs. on my Campus!

Maybe, we would not be 10 % of The School!

UofIL AXO · #30 09-24-2002, 02:57 AM

Our chapter was in the rush book for the largest house with 180. Most houses are well above 100 at University of Illinois. The greek system is well supported and very popular here.