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Originally Posted by SkiingSister

Tom, I totally agree with you on the growth mode.

However, from what I know, with colonies you start with 50% freshman, 25% sophomores, 20% juniors and then a few seniors.

Recruitment is tricky the first few years, even in colony status; people drop out, etc. Sure you have a good rush, but I do not believe that you can justify another chapter colonizing at the same school until all of that freshman class have graduated, perhaps a year later. Replacing that large class is hard. Having a new group come on any sooner is tough.

Having a lot of friends at Arizona, I have an idea of how bad it was. It was pretty sad in those days. After all the colonizing, rush numbers went down like gravity and chapters, even those successful were doing spring rush.

BTW, anyone know why ADPi went off campus? What happened to their house? I heard somewhere that could recolonize. Why them and not someone else?

ADPi or it might have been AOTT at UofA went off campus because of low numbers. I went to there house a year before they closed for a tour of the sorority houses sponsored by the NPC Alum Association.