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Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie
Interesting thread.
I wonder how many women at Arkansas don't go through recruitment because the pledge classes are so large. A large pledge class and a large group like that holds zero appeal to me. My entire graduating class in high school was only 150 people!
It's really too bad they can't bring on three or four groups all at once to eliminate the stigma of being the "new" group. As someone else said, there are probably plenty of women who would enjoy the sorority experience, but don't necessarily want to be in one with all of the extra southern expectations attached.
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I think it's kind of what people say about having large amounts of dogs or cats - once you get to a certain point one more doesn't matter. Even if the pledge class numbers dropped to 50 tomorrow, the chapters would still be over 200 and would stay that way. I'm sure that there are people in ALL the SEC schools who don't want that kind of Greek experience. Arkansas is not a unique snowflake.
If you don't want a "southern" sorority experience, you probably aren't going to rush at Arkansas. You can only go on the "it's a sorority, but not like the others" train for so long, unless you have women coming to the school with plans of pledging that group. Some of the historically Jewish sororities have chapters like this, but as for the other 24 NPC groups, it really isn't feasible.