No chapter has 400 members. I would say post recruitment they range from 175-325. I don't know exact numbers. I'm just basing them off of spring 2010 grades report (minus seniors) and then recruitment numbers this fall 2010. I would say most chapters do a great job with retention. Some struggle with this but overall it's not awful.

So based on this, do you think the women wouldn't care if the chapters had 800 people in them? Maybe you're mixing with the "top fraternities" but no matter how huge they are relative to other chapters nationally, I don't think the fraternities will ever be as large as the sororities. What fun is it to go to a mixer and talk to no one but other girls all night? Unless you have a mixer with one sorority and 5 fraternities.

Well, your example is a little exaggerated and quite frankly, impossible logistics wise. A sorority that big simply couldn't operate. Anyways, no I don't think girls would want to join a sorority that big, but you're kind of missing my point. I'm making a lot of assumptions here, but I don't think I'm off base at all for the most part. I was just saying that "most" freshmen girls aren't really too worried about anything other than being able to wear XYZ letters and all that goes along with that. As far as girls just talking amongst themselves at mixers. I mean, it happens. A lot. They're there for the free alcohol just as much as they are to "mix" per se.

As far as sororities generally being a lot bigger than fraternities. That's true, but at least at my undergrad girls generally stopped going to mixers after junior year and go straight to the bars. With guys, it's much later. Some never stop going, but most that are of age at least go to pregame for the bars. So the ratio is generally pretty even anyways.

If the only reason you join a sorority is for letters, free alcohol, and to stop attending the most fun events once you're a junior, quite frankly, I fail to see the point. I guess it's a North vs South thing again.

I'm not passing judgment on it, either way. I'm just saying that's how it is a lot of times.

There are some that are joining for certain "letters" but seriously do you think all 800 something that got bids only went through recruitment for free alcohol and parties? Geez. Maybe I'm naive but I'm pretty sure they are all looking for more than that in a sorority at Ole Miss.

I don't believe there are any fraternities that are bigger than any sororities at Ole Miss. I know Sigma Nu gave out 60 bids, Sigma Chi 80 bids, Sig Ep about 50 bids, just to name a few. The bigger fraternities probably have around 180members and the smaller ones about 30-40 members. Many sororities are doing joint swaps now with two sororities and two fraternities. Most upperclassmen don't attend swaps/mixers so it's your younger crowd. Even when I was in college it always felt like there were more women than men at mixers and that was when average sorority chapter size was about 175!

Notice I didn't say "all girls" or "all the time", because that wouldn't be remotely true. I was just saying that it does happen more than some might think. And I wasn't talking specifically about Ole Miss, but SEC rush in general.

Gotcha. Did you go to an SEC school? Just curious. Not to sidetrack or anything.

Yea. UK. Not as competitive as Ole Miss, but probably just as much as UT and USC. I'm a guy, by the way, so none of that was from first hand experience as far as rush goes. Just from girls I know.

I know Delta Gamma made quota if it was set at 93. From what I hear they had 95

UK counts, it's not as competitive but I'd say still pretty tough for sororities there.


There were actually two quotas this year. Freshmen quota of 84 and upperclassmen quota of 9 Not all chapters took upperclassmen. So I guess technically you could say freshmen quota was 84 and the optional upperclassmen total was 9. Obviously the two combined equal 93.

KD has their new members announced in the paper today, first one I have seen so far:
http://issuu.com/dailymississippian/...pian10282010/3

Then it should open to the page with the ad on the right hand side.

Do the fraternities do this, too?

Nope. I've never seen a fraternity do this. But if they do I'll be sure to post it.

^^^I loved looking at the first names and reflecting on how times have changed. Hope there will be ads for the other chapters! Thanks for posting this.