My chapter has had very small NM classes in years past. The past two years quota has been around 17, and last year we had four women join through FMR and four CR additions. We've grown a lot this year, taking in a total of 15 new members!
We'll have 26 sisters after our Spring additions initiate in a few weeks.
There were eleven active sisters for FMR this year and my NM class started at eight. I didn't notice a whole lot of separation between the initated and new sisters, mostly because my chapter allows NM's to participate in almost everything. Chapter meetings are open to all NM's unless we're voting on certain things or having a Ritual workshop. Almost all of our chapter members were present at NM Education meetings because six sisters live in the chapter apartment and all the Bigs came for their Littles.
There have been some growing pains this year, but they're good pains. Our new recruitment chair is absolutely amazing and I absolutely can't wait to see how FMR goes this fall.