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True, BUT member retention through 4 years might improve if they don't feel that their usefulness has passed them by. If all of the leadership in the chapter is handled by a small portion of the sophomores and juniors, you can't possibly live in the house, and you are completely over the fraternity party scene, what reason is there to keep paying dues and attending chapter meetings that are bigger than freshman lecture classes? If that 350 member chapter goes to 250 that is still a freakishly big group, but some of the above could be diminished, at least for a few girls.
There are some schools where it seems member retention must be terrible. I notice huge pledge classes, but quite large spring rush numbers as well. The only way that can happen is if they are losing well more than the odd disgruntled member who bails, or the odd member who transfers to a different school or simply drops out of college. Now, part of that is special snowflake inability to keep to a commitment, but that can't explain all of it.
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