Wow accodring to all of the theories, my school has a strange mix of sororities! We have:

Alpha Xi Delta
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Omicon Pi
Delta Delta Delta
Phi Beta Phi
Kappa Delta
Chi Omega

This seems to go against all previous mention theories. We used to have Phi Sigma Sigma but they closed at the end of the 2001-2002 school year due to low numbers. I'm pretty sure we will be opening up to at least one more sorority in the next two years or so b/c all of our chapters are strong and at or near ceiling. So in order to grow we have to raise ceiling or get a new sorority and the raising ceiling will never happen. When we open for a new sorority I'll let everyone know!

I think that this idea of campus overlap also has a lot to do with where your sorority is strongest geographically.

Compare D Phi E and Phi Sigma Sigma

D Phi E has 18 NY chapters, 13 NJ chapters and 13 PA chapters.

Phi Sigma Sigma has 21 NY chapters, 9 NJ chapters and 16 PA chapters.

Obviously we all are stronger in this area, and of course, will have overlap.

Now, look at Theta, Kappa and Pi Phi:

Theta has 16 CA chapters and 7 TX chapters
Kappa has 13 CA chapters and 7 TX chapters
Pi Phi has 13 CA chapters and 7 TX chapters

Ahhh, correlation :)

So true! (and so hard for us sometimes)

My new school has: ACW, AXD, AF, PBF

I know they used to have a GFB chapter but only for a very short time, and I'm not sure who else used to be there but isn't. I'm trying to make my mom pull out one of her yearbooks to look.

A lot of it has to do with the kinds of campuses that the various groups colonize at. Some sororities prefer large universities, others like small colleges. Some go after Southern campuses--or northern, western, or Midwestern. The majority seem to prefer to go with campuses in the region that they're best in.

My school had the KD/ZTA link :)

The verdict is in... FINAL TALLY
 

After a while week in the office by my self, my boss is on vacation and I've run out of things to do.. Here's my numbers...

Campuses with Alpha Xi Delta Chapters also have....

37.3% Delta Zeta
34.5% Chi Omega
32.7% Zeta Tau Alpha
27.3% Alpha Chi Omega
26.4% Pi Beta Phi
24.5% Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Phi, Delta Gamma
23.6% Alpha Omicron Pi, Phi Mu
20.9% Alpha Delta Pi, Kappa Delta, Sigma Kappa
19.1% Delta Delta Delta, Gamma Phi Beta, Kappa Kappa Gamma
17.3% Kappa Alpha Theta
15.5% Sigma Sigma Sigma
12.7& Phi Sigma Sigma
10.9% Alpha Epsilon Phi
5.5% Alpha Sigma Tau
4.5% Delta Phi Epsilon, Theta Phi Alpha
3.6% Alpha Sigma Alpha
0.1% Sigma Delta Tau

Where do these numbers come from??

About four hours of searching the internet. I used my nationals site and visited every schools official listed there and marked down what sororities they had then divided by the total number of schools I was able to find information on (110).

This includes all active university chapters, thanks to those who hepled me finish my research!!

If your chapters not here it's because I used the list off Ariesrising's web site, which listed 26 NPC chapters and my page only had 26 lines and believe me doing this on two pages would have been nuts.

KD, DZ and ZTA are all at Bama and have been for a long, long time!

Re: The verdict is in...
 

great work! very interesting stats....

but just an fyi: i'm thinking you meant Alpha Epsilon PHI (not Pi) w/ your 11.4% ;)

:eek: Way to go rocketaxid ! I don't have that much patience.

Ditto to this - only if I get bored I might start doing it for Gamma Phi. :)

Rocket, you are da bomb! I wouldn't have guessed all those, either - I would have guessed A Chi O was way up there, but not ZTA . DZ and Chi O are some of the largest so I guess I shouldn't be surprised there.

I'm sure someone has done the research, but not necessarily for this purpose. Baird's lists who is at what school, although the latest edition isn't very recent, and I'm pretty sure NPC would track what chapters are where simply through Panhellenic Councils. It would just be a matter of boring numbers.

Whoa, I'm impressed!!!!
This give me an idea how to kill time at my internship.....hmmm....

Re: The verdict is in...
 

CBU has Alpha Xi Delta, Zeta Tau Alpha, and an Alpha Sigma Tau colony (that was accurate for the spring semester...when I last visited).

GREAT JOB, ROCKETAXID!!!!!!

We only have one of the Farmville Four (ZTA :D) but we do have AFandGFB. We also have AXD to push rocketaxid's research :)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by FuzzieAlum
[B]Rocket, you are da bomb! I wouldn't have guessed all those, either - I would have guessed A Chi O was way up there, but not ZTA . DZ and Chi O are some of the largest so I guess I shouldn't be surprised there.


You should have guessed ZTA. DZ, Chi O and Zeta are the three largest NPC groups (or were very recently) -- if Zeta isn't still in the top three, it is right up there!