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Originally Posted by aephi alum
To this day I am floored by numbers like this.
I attended a school where the entire undergrad population was around 5000, meaning about 1200 per class. My freshman class was at approximately a 2:1 male:female ratio, meaning about 400 incoming women. There were only about 150 PNMs in any given year, and that includes the handful of sophomores and up who were either transfers or re-rushing. Total was 80. Quota throughout my collegiate years was 30ish, so after recruitment, most chapters had around 100 members. And one of the reasons my local sorority's founding sisters chose to found their own much smaller sorority is that they felt it was impossible to feel a sisterly bond with 30+ pledge sisters and 100+ chapter sisters.
I attended a prominent engineering school in the Northeast, i.e., I was in a different world.
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It's all what you're used to.
When I was a student at Alabama, we had the same number of sororities - actually one more, since Sigma Delta Tau participated in rush at that time. Around 500 to 600 rushed each year, with pledge classes around 30 to 35. The biggest groups had 100 to 125 members; the smallest ones had around 60 or 70.
Of course, at that time there were around 10,000 students on campus. Now, it's 35,000 on campus.