It’s back.
My apologies. Life got in the way. Things were crazy

I fell down the rabbit hole for about two hours which apparently is nothing in comparison to people who’ve been following the entire rush period.

Fascinating and cringe worthy.

One of the things I have learned? Apparently there should be Justice for McKenzie! Another thing I learned? The parodies were pretty funny. A third thing I realized, People have a strange fascination with southern accents.

Nope, can’t unsee this either. Lol

Houses doing COB this year

Delta Delta Delta

Delta Zeta

Sigma Kappa

I would love to see AXiD regain our SEC chapters.

I really hope we do recolonize! 😍

SK is in the old ADII house. It's been one they've used as a "swing house" for chapters building new ones. There are 2 lots that could be used for a new house - one t behind where they are now and one is just east of the DG house.

Alabama numbers so far:

Kappa Delta 139
Phi Mu 135
Sigma Kappa 114
Alpha Omicron Pi 141

DG - 146

Alabama Pi Phi, 140.

According to a post I saw on Facebook, Delta Zeta welcomed 149 new members.

Anyone know what quota was?

I believe Quota was 134. that makes sense with the numbers posted above

Rumor has it that Alpha Delta Pi took 164? Beautiful photos, but hard to count!

I would find it hard to believe Alabama Panhel would allow ADPi to take 164 (30 quota additions!) Maybe something got jumbled in the information relay. Univ of Arkansas' quota is 163, so ADPi taking 164 at that other U of A seems reasonable?

Well I read AOPi at Arkansas took 174 (!!!) new members.

Because of RFM, one SEC chapter took maybe 40 more girls than the other groups did a while back. That happened because they had so many girls who went to just the one pref.

I stand corrected, and you were right! I got my UA's confused.

I counted 164 at Arkansas, and about 134 at Alabama. I counted both a couple of times, but it's hard to tell.

Gamma Phi Beta at Alabama took 137 new members!

I've been on GC for years, and numbers like this still boggle my mind. When I was an active, total was 80. LOL

Ours was 65. I was part of the largest pledge class on campus - all 13 of us!

A few others have been posted in this thread

:) When I was an active, our entire NPC system was about 150. among 5 chapters. "Total" was referenced in Panhel documents, but none of us could have defined it.

When I pledged, we had 4 NPC chapters, and about 120 women. We had one local that had about 15 women. There were two "little sister" groups who probably numbered around 25 each. They became NPCs a few years later when the little sister groups were banned as part of Title IX (to maintain single gender organizations).

When I was a collegiate member, we had three NPC sororities on campus and hovered around 60 members total across all three. To have 125+ new members per chapter blows my mind.

As boggled as our minds are, this is just normal for girls there now. It's been like this for the past 7-8-9 or so years.
Our second year after colonization, the Fraternity had to rewrite some of our rules because our numbers went beyond what anybody could imagine. ONE officer to handle all recs? That was impossible.

Alabama's recruitment went off the charts when the school started recruiting OOS students - particularly ones in Texas. With their top 10% only rule, many Texas students were left out. In stepped Alabama with scholarship money and multiple football National Championships. Football is a big deal in Texas. With their colleges tanking in football - Alabama thrashed UT in one NC game - the students were ripe for the picking.

Is Texas driving some of the giant numbers at Arkansas and Ole Miss, too? 160+ in a pledge class at Arkansas?! It would take me a whole semester to learn all their names.

Alabama colleges pluck a lot of students from Georgia as well. They offer scholarships and in state tuition to many.

Absolutely. and Georgia, I suspect.
Those lottery-funded educations are great, but a lot of good students get pushed out.

I know California students are surging to out-of-state colleges. There are scads at Alabama.

Yep. I know a kid who didn't get into UGA with a 3.8 GPA. He went to Bama. I swear, I know more people's kids who've gone out of state rather than stay. A lot of them go to Alabama schools.