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Originally posted by dakareng
Pi Beta Phi has restructured our senior transitional program to make it more appealing to those women and hopefully more meaningful. If we still provide something of value, something unique, perhaps we won't see the seniors all disappear by December.
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Just to ditto Ms. Gunther, Pi Phi has some great new programming for seniors designed to combat just this problem, and I've found it to be highly effective so far in my term as President, especially compared to the programming I was implementing before as Membership Chair.
In response to the question in general, deactivating is huge at W&L. Lots and lots of women leave after their sophomore year--usually, I think, to disillusionment with rush and the whole Greek system. I think GLOs are so "hyped" here that people enter with rose-colored glasses. I think the fraternities tend to have fewer deactivations than the sororites, and the sororities can vary. Almost all the groups lose at least one girl every year. I have a friend in a group who is very strong on our campus and she said that 25% of her pledge class had already left (this friend is a junior like me). My own pledge class has had like 2 transfers, 1 deactivation, and 1 person take collegiate alumna status. I'd say these numbers are about average--but some groups have many more. Honestly I think a lot of women get turned off to the cutthroat nature of rush here--many women come here without much knowledge of GLOs (myself included) and do it because it's the thing to do, unprepared for the reality of rush from the other side. But that's just W&L, I think.