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Originally posted by Seminole Pike:
sororities traditionally do not pledge large classes in the spring. Your membership intake is structured toward taking one class per year, usually in formal rush.
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Seminole Pike,
That wasn't my experience at all. I went to a state school in PA (population around 6,000). We had fairly equal size classes in the fall (informal - mainly sophomores) and spring (formal - second semester freshmen). We also had none of the (for lack of a better term) prejudice against older students that I've seen people talk about on here - people pledging as juniors was very commonplace.
But then again - I didn't have a humoungous house to support (our sorority houses held 12-14 except for ZTA). If I had, I might feel differently. On the other side of the coin, if your house is too big to support with sophomores, juniors, and seniors, perhaps your house is too big, period.
I think the key to maintaining house capacity is to make sure the pledges are allowed to move in the semester after they are initiated. We had problems on and off because the school kept switching between semester and year contracts for the dorms.