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Originally Posted by OPhiAGinger
I was a founding mother of an OPA chapter and we were in your same situation when we held our first recruitment event. We were delighted, but overwhelmed, to discover the interested PNMs outnumbered the active members.
So, if that continues to be the case (and it looks likely so far), how will you decide how many new members to take? Theoretically you could accept 28 to get your chapter up to total, right? But do you think you could integrate that many into your chapter all at once?
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Well, that's what we were thinking. How many is too many? With so few sisters, and each one already holding at least 2 positions (on top of school, work, and any other activities), it would be hard for everyone to constantly be involved in new member education and activities. And when new members outnumber actives, the learning process after initiation becomes difficult also. And while it would be great to have a large number of girls come in, to alleviate some of the work put on the shoulders of the sisters, there's also only so much you can do as a small chapter. Handing things off isn't that easy when there's so much to teach to such a large number of people. But... in a little while, I will update my story, and you'll see how things are panning out for us this semester...