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My original pledge class on Bid Day in Spring '99 had 22 girls. 3 dropped out making it 19. All initiated. One of the girls who depledged ended up repledging the next fall and initiating so we'll count her and make it 20 again. Two girls left my school, one ended up affiliating with the chapter at UVA, the other didn't affiliate at her school. So we're back down to 18. 4 girls graduated in the Spring of 2001 (1 graduated early to get married, the other 3 were sophomores when we pledged). So that makes 14. Of that 14, 1 was super not-active our senior year, one was semi-not-active and the other 12 were fairly (or super) active. There was a COB class that got initiated after mine that had 8 girls--only one was a frosh and she graduated with us--and we always thought of her as part of our 'pledge class'--so we ended up graduating 18 from 22--19 if you count the COB girl. Not too shabby.
There were a bunch of sophomores who pledged in the Fall of '99 or Spring of '00--so there were at least 25 of us who graduated my senior year.
However, there were only 14 total seniors my frosh year--so we doubled the graduating rate by the time the class of '02 came around.
I know it's hard to stick with a chapter; especially since it's ever-evolving. Most of what my chapter turned into I enjoyed, but I went through a period where I thought I'd deaffiliate. But I did stick with it for 4 years, and I'm still doing alum stuff. So in my opinion, if you do last your four years, you don't regret it. The seniors who graduated my year send out a 'where are they now?' email every 6 months so we can catch up with each other. It's fun to know how people are doing even if we're not so close anymore.
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