I attended a tiny little private school (under 2000 students including the handful of MBA candidates and MSN candidates there).
Plegeclasses for all of the GLO's ranged anywhere from 3 to around 35 in any given semester I was there ('95-'99). From memory, the smallest GLO had around 14 members and the biggest about 60 at their respective extremes. The BGLO's were (are) actually city-wide chapters, and I can't speak for their line numbers. (I do know that the chapters consisted of members from several small private (and predominately white) colleges in the vicinity, so I don't imagine they were huge. But I could always be wrong
).
My pledgeclass had 18.. a pretty good number. We got active and I think everyone contributed a lot. But there were times when it felt like there were some sisters and brothers that I just didn't know like I felt I
should, given that they were my pledgeclass. Also, it made pledge activites hard to schedule (most of our members had evening rehearsals and the like, all class/school commitments).
When I had the privelage of training 2 different pledgeclasses (one each semester), they had 8 members and then 7 members. While the numbers were small, the members were (and are)
incredibly rad. All worked together amazingly well and I could see the bonds that they were forming. And even though scheduling was still an issue, my last pledgeclass asked to have more stuff scheduled so they could spend more time together as a class and with the actives. (Talk about an impressive class!)
"alumnus who cares" made a pretty valid point on quantity vs. quality. While I would choose quality, it's definately preferable to be able to blend the 2!
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