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Originally Posted by irishpipes
Do you think DePaul went too far with expansion? They have added 4 chapters since 2007 (XO, DG, AP, AXD) and plan to add a 5th this year (PM). The numbers were never huge at DePaul. I can understand wanting chapter sizes to be small, but this just seems like a saturated market.
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If you were to ask me a year ago I would say no. Based on what I heard it was really blowing up the past few years. They had a record size recruitment last year with quota at 36. Alpha Xi took somewhere in the low 50s (I can't remember off the top of my head). And yes, I have heard the rationale is to keep chapter sizes down--several of the chapters were up in the 100s last year.
I am not sure how the next year or so is going to turn out. As of that number I got last night, there were 37% less PNMs this year, a chapter that is struggling numbers wise and a new chapter coming in a quarter that does not have formal recruitment. I will be interested to see how this all turns out!