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Hi guys! I'm Private I's sister! Thank you so much for the congratulations and the good wishes. I'm ecstatic about the choice I made, and I feel at home with the ADPis at BU. I'm not sure if there are a lot of BU greeks on GC, but I'd love to hear from them because our greek system is tiny!!!

Congratulations BostonADPi! Welcome to ADPi! Stop by the ADPi forum sometime :)

hi welcome to gc! congrats on adpi!!!

:)
from another bostonian

Congrats & welcome to GC!:)

Welcome to GreekChat, BostonADPi!! Hope you stop in at the ADPi Forum, and have some fun with us!

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Originally posted by BostonADPi
Hi guys! I'm Private I's sister! Thank you so much for the congratulations and the good wishes. I'm ecstatic about the choice I made, and I feel at home with the ADPis at BU. I'm not sure if there are a lot of BU greeks on GC, but I'd love to hear from them because our greek system is tiny!!!

Congrats BostonADPI...BU greek here, I sent you a PM. You joined a great chapter, hope you're having a good time.

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Originally posted by SDTSarah
Yay! That's awesome! I just had to giggle a little...

"'We have 30-girl pledge classes, which is huge.'"

I WISH everyone had 30-girl pledge classes...instead of 80 or 100...

My pledge class had 8 women in it. When I was NMC, the largest I saw was 10. They made me want to pull my hair out. I think I would have cried a whole lot if I'd have had a pledge class of 30. I think I would have shot myself if I'd have had a pledge class of 80.

But... for a chapter of 40 women... 10 is like a quarter of the chapter.

Oh and I only preffed Alpha Gam because I went through informal recruitment and had already made up my mind... I didn't go to any of the other chapters (but I still love them and being a Rho Gam this past formal recruitment just made me love them more - soooo supportive).

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Originally posted by alphagamzetagam
My pledge class had 8 women in it. When I was NMC, the largest I saw was 10. They made me want to pull my hair out. I think I would have cried a whole lot if I'd have had a pledge class of 30. I think I would have shot myself if I'd have had a pledge class of 80.

But... for a chapter of 40 women... 10 is like a quarter of the chapter.

Oh and I only preffed Alpha Gam because I went through informal recruitment and had already made up my mind... I didn't go to any of the other chapters (but I still love them and being a Rho Gam this past formal recruitment just made me love them more - soooo supportive).

I think I would cry with a NM class of 10 forget about more! We had our largest NM class since Fall 2001 get in this past semster (5) and it was crazy for the NME to figure out a meeting time and stuff.

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Originally posted by adduncan
Womens' Greek life at BU has come a LONG way in a relatively short time and with 30-girl NM classes, everyone must be bumping pretty close to total. (Which is 70, BTW)

From what I've seen the men's groups have been struggling w/ recruitment but with some elbow grease that could turn around as well.

On a somewhat related tangent, does anyone up in BU-land know if there is ever going to be an updated listing of GLO's websites? Or is the IFSC ever going to create one? (Speaking of helping the men and continuing to grow the Greek system, that would be square one, IMHO.)

I see what you mean about the groups and greek life needing to beef up their web marketing.

Unless I am missing something, the main Greek Life page doesn't have much info - http://www.bu.edu/admissions/experience/greek.html

Then when you click on 'Student Activities Office', only a few of the greeks have chapter websites (if the listing is up to date) --- if it is right then APhi is the only NPC sorority at BU with a site -- http://people.bu.edu/alphaphi/

Thanks to exlurker for this site.

Delta Delta Delta's Alpha chapter at BU - http://people.bu.edu/tridelta/delta_welcome.htm (Great site!)

According to the homepage announcement on the right, the chapter welcomed 17 new members for Spring 2005

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Congrats on your bid into ADPi! We'd love to get to know you better - as my fellow sisters have said, stop by the ADPi forum anytime! :)

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Originally posted by TxAPhi
I see what you mean about the groups and greek life needing to beef up their web marketing.

Unless I am missing something, the main Greek Life page doesn't have much info - http://www.bu.edu/admissions/experience/greek.html

Then when you click on 'Student Activities Office', only a few of the greeks have chapter websites (if the listing is up to date) --- if it is right then APhi is the only NPC sorority at BU with a site -- http://people.bu.edu/alphaphi/

APhi isn't the only sorority with a site. I know at least a couple of the others have sites, although the exact addresses escape me at this moment.

The school does not play up Greek life at all, and as of a couple of years ago, there were many tour guides who would deny the existence of fraternities and sororities on campus.

My junior year a website was set up by the Student Activities Office, with the site being run by the IFSC and Greek advisor. The new advisor wanted to dramatically increase Greek life at BU, with bigger rush numbers, more campus exposure, all leading to the scene being more accepted by administration.

However, for a variety of reasons, the Greek advisor was removed. With the new IFSC and the new advisor, the website became less of a priority, for whatever reason. I don't believe the information was updated after my senior year, as I think I was still listed as President (which, since I'd graduated, was untrue).

I'm hoping that at some point the site will be put back up. However, I know that the IFSC has done a lot of work in other capacities to help out Greek Life at the school, and I'm sure a site will eventually re-appear.

Collin