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The problems you encounter by growing fast don't compare to the problems that derive from having too few members and all the associated difficulties. Are good sororities associated with big? Yes. That may shift slightly from campus to campus, but in a typical campus world where being cometitive means a Greek house has to have enough members so that everyone doesn't have to do every thing, it is devastating to realize that a chapter cannot compete socially, in rush or on any other level.
If you're at a school where all the prestige houses have only 40 women, then forty is all you have to have to compete. If you're on a campus where the "name" sororities have 150, then your forty will be lost.
Sororities cost money. They are a luxury, and members want value. That value comes in the form of social life, and of interaction with other women like themselves with common interests. What's it worth to you in dollars to be able to walk into a room and "know everyone" regardles of how long or short a time they've been in school? If your sorority is so small that they can't attract enough members to make total or quota, then you're paying a hell of a price for what you want. And, it doesn't appear that the women in other sororities are troubled by being so much larger. Based on their experiences, if those other women had it to do again, would they pledge their sororities, or yours? If YOU had to do it again, would you join the same one, or would you look for a better deal?
It may be that you are absolutely in the right sorority for what you want. But if so, then you cannot complain about the small size and inability to compete.
Look...You have the solution to stability and strength and long-term success. Numbers rule. That's just the way it is.
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