Avg size sorority over 100!
 

Which universities have the avg size sorority over 100?

UF, Texas A&M... any others?

At Northwestern, most of the sororities range in size from 120-160. Some of the smaller ones may be slightly under 100, however.

USC
 

USC's (Southern Cal) are all around 200-250, I think. Quota last year was around 60.

This is a quote from the panhellenic website for my alma mater: "Over 600 undergraduate women are members of the one of five National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) sororities that have established chapters here at Truman."

So the NPC chapters have just over 100 members each, and this is at a small school of only 6000 people. I've always thought that seemed strange compared to schools of a similar size. So is it just me, or are those really large chapters for such a small school?

OMG that is a lot for a small school. My school is around 10,000 and we have five sororities. Quota is about 30 on average. I can't imagine having 100 girls in a sorority!!!

Sorority size
 

I went to USC and liked being in a big sorority -- more friends & variety!

100+
 

Univ. of Central Florida (Orlando) and Florida State Univ. (Tallahassee) also have over 100 members in their sororities.

I'm not sure about the other schools in FL: Univ. of South Florida (Tampa), Univ. of Miami, Florida International (Miami), & Florida Atlantic (Boca Raton). The last 2 probably are not that large, as their NPC's are relatively young.

Most of the chapters at AZ State have 100+.

My service sorority clocks in at right around 60.

I don't know what I'd do if I had 100+ sisters. I don't know how I'd ever get to know them all well enough to feel we had a true bond.

I think most chapters here at UF have close to 200 members in them.

i went to a smaller size school...elon university in north carolina. we had about 4,500 students. most of the sororities had between 80 and 120 members and the frats about 60-75 members.

University of Miami chapters would probably be 90-120 on average. Quota will probably about 50 something this year, bringing chapters to at least 140!. Total undergraduate students are about 9,000.
Pretty cool!

Re: USC
 

Where do they hold their chapter meetings... in an auditorium?
250 is like a high school graduation!

USC
 

When I was at USC in the mid 70's we were big but not
200+ big, more like 100-125-ish -- our chapter meetings were always really tight!;)

lol
 

Haha, true! I know the DG's at USC have more members than my graduating class! As for the meetings, ask me again in a few weeks!;)

there are a few houses at oregon state (thetas and tri delta for example) that have 80+ girls

That is quite big for such a small school... my first university has about that many students, and average chapter size for fraternities & sororities is about 20-25 ppl ! :eek:

WOW-- even the fraternities are big? At the University of northern Co I know 2 fraternities that have between 13-18 members! I think they would love to do a social with a sorority that has a 100+ girls(LOL);)

LoL yea I bet they would love it!

Re: lol
 

DUH! They hold them at a big long table! Haven't you seen LEGALLY BLONDE? And Reese Witherspoon stands at the front... Just kidding, but seriously...

This USC (Carolina) has total set at 100 for the moment, but sororities range from around 80-150.

Re: USC
 

Ye gods :eek: xo_sue is right, that's bigger than many high school class years! Not to mention that with new member classes that huge, initiation must take a week or so, lol :)

Total at MIT is 80. Back in the day, quota was around 30-32, and 4 out of the 5 sororities would come out of rush with around 100 members each (sisters + new members) - AEPhi is smaller with around 30 members. They're going to deferred rush, so we'll have to see what happens... hopefully all sororities will grow, since they will be holding fall informal rush to replace their new graduates, then hold formal rush in the spring.

At Nebraska almost all the sororities are in the 90-115 range, while the fraternities are in the 65-90 range.

lsu
 

At LSU, the smallest sorority chapter's average size is around 150, but two have 220+... but those both have an allowed inactive status, meaning that members can pay dues but are not required to attend meetings and hum drum activities. Let's you basically drop attendance but obtain alum status.

Re: 100+
 

University of South Florida's sorority chapters all average above 100. In addition, all sorority chapters at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University average above 100 members.


Kerry

The following chapters in my region (Southern California, Arizona and Colorado) have totals (or average chapter sizes) of 100+:

UCSB (100)
UCLA (115)
USC (total is 115 but most chapters are returning b/w 100 and 150 and I think there are only two chapters on campus that we over 200 after fall recruitment last year).
Loyola Marymount
U of San Diego
Arizona State
U of Arizona
CU Boulder

Laura

Nope, fraternities at Truman are not that big (100s), but yeah the sororities are--mainly cuz while there are 5 sororities (used to be at least two more NPC there that folded), there are something like 18 fraternities? Been a while since I counted, but that lowers the average fraternity number quite a bit. We're also talking about a school where there is something like a 2:1 female:male ratio, so that ups the ladies' numbers a bit too.... I had yet to see another person who had graced the presence of Truman State University Campus :) ... I was going to comment on TSU's being normally around 100+ since at my current university (UMR) there are only 3 sororities and the total is 65 (which, I might add, Chi Omega hits nearly every semester:)) Here we're talking a 1:5 female:male ratio... quite a different story :)

The only thing to do in Kirksville is be Greek, it seems... there are also high numbers of people from major cities, namely St. Louis, Chicago, and Kansas City (most people you ask would be from one of those three areas)--it seems there are strange factors that make the greek system so big there for such a small school *shrug*

Here fraternities have a pretty big range it seems... some have 10 or less, others have somewhere around 70-80 (like Phi Kappa Theta! woohoo!) The stronger houses seem to stay strong, while some of the weaker ones somehow manage to stick around year after year despite low numbers, so at least they aren't folding...

Oh yeah, there was a thread about Greek Advisors a while back and I complained about ours (said some mean things about here) but I would just like to comment that she is SO *GONE* now! Not sure why, but she mysteriously left for another school...

greek love,
april :)

Elon has a little over 4,000 undergrads. Most of the sororities are around 100 before rush in the spring, after rush, usually about 100-115. Most of the Fraternities are about 40-60 members.

North Carolina State University just figured the average at 111. DG is colonizing this semester and are going to offer 120 bid right from the beginning.

UCF actually averages from 100-190 women in a chapter.

This is the exact thing I was talking about!

Why not expand the Organizations!

How in the world can you know that many Brothers/Sisters in a single House!????


It is BS!!!!!!!

Im the Biggest ergo Im the best! What a load of Crap!

We as Greeks shoot our own selves in the foot because of things like this!

I would love to see more Fraternity and Soroity Orgs. on my Campus!

Maybe, we would not be 10 % of The School!

U of I sororities
 

Our chapter was in the rush book for the largest house with 180. Most houses are well above 100 at University of Illinois. The greek system is well supported and very popular here.

I think it just all depends on the school size. At my school, with around 20,000 undergrads, a sorority size of around 25 wouldn't survive. There's just too much that sororities have to participate in, too much work to keep a chapter alive at a school like this. You need a proper support size, which average at around 90 does. But down the road, at Newberry College, their average is around 25 (I think) and their sororities do fine. I think that greek systems at different schools, for the most part, know what's best for their school as far as chapter size.