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Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap
Wow, I had no idea that Penn State quotas were so small. I assumed they would be huge. The chapters are smaller there than I guessed they would be.
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About 800-950 women start recruitment, but last year I believe only about 450 completed it. A LOT of women drop out because they don't get the invites they want; hence quota is smaller than one would expect.
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Originally Posted by IndianaSigKap
So much interesting information in the last few posts! I knew that Penn State didn't have houses for sororities, do the fraternities have houses?
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Yep, they do, and sororities used to have houses before WWII, but after that the cost of living rose and space opened up in the new dormitories so that is where they moved.
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Originally Posted by 33girl
Yes, they have big, beautiful, gorgeous houses that make me drool just thinking about them. (Although I'm sure there's some shacks that I missed when I was there.) I think Penn State might have the largest number of fraternities of any system, but obviously they are not all the same size.
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Most of the prettiest houses downtown are fraternity houses. Some are smaller and maybe less grand, but so many are beautiful in the architecture and proportions. I still remember on my first visit to PSU I kept saying "I like that house, and that one too" and my mom kept saying "they're all fraternity houses". I remember being so mad that I'd never get to live in them, some look really quaint and magical.
I've heard that if four sororities could move off campus at once that we could have off campus housing, however the chances of four houses suitable for sororities to live in being for sale all at once in State College, where housing and land is at a premium, is unlikely. Therefore we're moving toward the Greek Village concept, but again we'll see where it goes.
I think there are about 52 fraternities at Penn State, though I may be making up that number it's definitely more than 50. They range in size like 33girl said but we do have quite a lot.
//back to your regularly scheduled UIUC programming.
