We've got 33 guys, and we started the year out with 17 active brothers. We only have 4 brothers graduating, so we'll start next year off wit 29, and we will be one of the BIGGER fraternities on my campus! The highest we've ever had for our chapter was around 42 actives and that was a while ago. A smaller chapter is great to get to know everyone, run for a position, have everyone get involved. The only thing that sucks is that you've GOT to do well for recruitment EVERY year. If you have an off year (we had a pledge class of 3 once), then you will be put behind the 8-ball against all of the other fraternities. Not that having more than another fraternity is a big thing, but when you were the smallest (when we had 17), our president got a few letters stating if our numbers didn't rise then our chapter could be put on a probation level. Thankfully, we had a great rush.