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What percentage of the chapter lives in the dorm housing?
How big are the pledge classes in the fall?
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Sister's have to live in the dorm sophmore and junior year, so they effectively spend 3 of their four college years living in a freshman dorm. Pledge classes this past fall were different. This is my first year fully advising although I know the previous fall we couldn't take anyone because we were at total but the previous years, before total was lowered allowed people to have fall pledge classes up to 10-11. There is one chapter who is struggling due to an issue of members deactivating. My chapter had a large graduating senior class so was able to pledge 7. We were the largest, the rest were only 1-4. Even us, with pledging 7, we struggled because we had way more girls coming than even we had spots for, which is usually a good thing but sucks when normally in the fall, with the higher total we could usually replace way more.
The economy might have something to do with it but the PanHellenic advisor seems to believe it's due to lack of interest of the freshman women. It seems that many girls realize their sophmore year that greek life is more appealing. A combination of seeing their friends that go greek and also seeing more of greek life after out combination of greek week and spring week events.