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Originally Posted by 33girl
This is only pertinent if you have a situation in which the majority (as in 99%) of the rushees are freshmen. Absolutely not the case at many campuses. Not only that, 4 years and graduated is far from set in stone these days - it hasn't been that way for a long time.
Also, it's very very rare that there is one bigger than everyone group and the rest are lagging behind - it's usually the other way around.
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You probably know more than I do, because I'm only familiar with the campuses where we have chapters and there are over 500 campuses with an NPC recognized Panhellenic. We're only on about 1/5 of those campuses, so I should not pretend to be the expert here. I'll say that I've seen a total gap as I've described on a couple of our campuses, and also a few (maybe 4) where housing makes it impossible to lower total. Also, I'll say that for our International Fraternity, Kappa Alpha Theta works with our chapters to set a recruitment goal if a chapter is below total so that once they reach that goal (even if they're still below total), they stop recruiting. You're right that recruiting all of the time is a drag and really can set chapter morale back. However, I will also say that for us, it is rare to find a campus where being the smallest or a small chapter is not a stigma. But, we are on mostly large campuses with traditional Greek systems. Again, not the norm, and only a small percentage of the real life Greek world.