Pm me if u want to know the school

Jumping on the qfp train.

okay... so after being told the school by the OP, I can say that the numbers of NPC, MCGLOs, Locals, etc. do line up with her posts. Also, there is NO info on the schools website regarding recruitment at all. After looking at the NPC chapters websites, they have NO info on recruitment either.

I'm not jumping on and saying that the OP is accurate in everything she's said, but these original facts do line up.

Four housed sororities with meal plans functioning on budgets based on single-digit pledge classes .... I don't even know what to type next.

I didn't see anything about housing or meal plans,it looks like quite the disorganized greek system... to put it mildly.

Sigmagirl, are the chapters housed as has been implied?

as per Irishpipes thread, there's no quota or total listed.... (perhaps .25 seemed silly?) let me keep sleuthing on the housing....

I mention housing/meals only because prior posts suggested them with visiting and dinner/dessert.

from what I've been able to find... the fraternities have houses that area really gross, and when they have open parties, only freshmen attend.... lol. (obviously this was not an official source). I don't see anything about sorority houses. Per the university website, the roster #s for chapters range from 2-12.... but photos seem to indicate memberships between 4 and 20ish?

(the NPC groups refer to themselves on the university website as "one of the 4 national sororities on campus" so OP wasn't making up that odd phrasing either.)

although some of these other things seem to line up, I can only hope that the OP was mistaken regarding how recruitment actually functions though....

There are campuses with small houses where only a very small percentage of the chapter lives in the house. The houses have a normal kitchen and the actives who live in the house buy their own food and cook like they would in an apartment. They don't have/need meal plans.

Interesting and thanks, sigmagirl. It is hard for me to get my head around any NPC group sustaining a 4 person chapter unless it is on a highly desirable campus or is a very old chapter on its roster. I'm not doubting you, but what a strange system.

The timing of my posts is bad! Apologies! The small houses explanation makes sense. I am still curious about four tiny chapters and tiny recruitment.

The chapters are around 30to 45 people for the national sororities some of the locals are at 9 or 10

It seems as though the NPC groups are the on the larger side of those numbers I saw.... remember.... there are 11 groups considered "social sororities" but some are honorary, locals (one super different local/ not local one as well), multicultural. The 4 NPC groups are just lumped in with the other 7.

Okay, thanks. I thought the range was for the NPC groups. This makes much more sense. There must be some form of unstructured recruitment if "formal" yields so few women.