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Originally posted by dzsaigirl
I have a question related to that. Some schools have almost 200 members per house and others have as few as 20 per house. A decision to bring a new group on campus depends upon the increase in the number of people rushing and the need for another group to take them in. This is the thing: It seems that if a school has TONS of members per group, they should have brought another group on campus long ago so that the chapters could be a bit smaller. I mean, 20 is soooo small, but 200 sisters? I have talked to DZs from A&M who didn't even know every girl in their pledge class, much less everone in the sorority! It seems like 50-100 would be a good functional number. Is there any stance that NPC has with regard to ideal chapter size? Please ask me to explain more clearly if this has been a confusing post. 
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As long as people keep joining 200 member chapters, 200 member chapters are going to exist. For NPC to put any sort of nationwide cap on it would be like McDonald's saying "oh, we have enough restaurants, let's quit." Obviously that will never happen.
There's big differences between a system that is just growing, and one where chapters go on and off all the time. The first is a good expansion risk, the second maybe not.