[UGAalum94]

First: excellent story. Thank you for sharing it. It was really interesting to me all the way around. I'm glad that you were willing to work hard to fit in.

In regard to all the alumnae chapters who didn't really reach out either, don't you know that those women probably also wondered why more people weren't involved when they found themselves with a big project. I haven't ever experienced it with alumnae groups, but I have with church groups or other organizations.

The CAP program is just a sub-group of students at a regular four year college, if I understand it correctly. So probably the majority of the students at those school are there for four years, so it's not really a junior college kind of campus in general.

I think that the groups themselves should just handle it by not taking more than a couple CAP girls a year. With those students, you know in advance they are leaving, so you can weigh whether you want to have them for a year or someone else for maybe four. (But even so, don't other non-CAP students transfer?)

Or the campus panhellenic could set up a separate CAP quota. There are ways to handle it, it seems to me, when you can identify in advance who is likely to transfer.

With everyone else, as long as all the groups see about the same number of girls leave each year, it can be reflected in having a lower campus total for all groups, right?

And, I totally understand how a girl could be in good financial and academic shape and still not be a good member. I'm completely fine with voting on affiliates; I just think that no votes should be exceptional and only for "good" reasons. If it's a national sisterhood; it's a national sisterhood. Since affiliates don't keep you from pledging someone else, we can afford to be generous with the sisterhood, it seems to me.