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When I was at Penn State, almost everyone rushed as sophomores, and retention was excellent all the way through to the end of senior year. Our sorority had most of its members living on the sorority floor; on one hand you're right there for everything - not a big deal to go downstairs for a meeting in the suite. On the other hand, it can be stifling and way too gossipy (a good reason for requesting a room next to the stairway)
My friend who was a DG lived off-campus, and admits to having been a dreadful member - racked up tons of fines or demerits or whatever they do for not attending mandatory stuff.
Most of us couldn't run for anything until we were at the end of sophomore year, so a lot of us held offices as seniors, which also helped retention.
In a lot of majors at that time, Junior year was brutal, and Senior year held a lot more "play time". It was actually harder to concentrate of membership Junior year.
I still love my sorority, but to be honest, I was really ready to leave school and ASA/the Greek system and move on by the end of senior year. I'm not sure I could have dealt with 4 years. I glad I had the 1st year to make friends outside the system, since I've remained close friends with both my freshman year dorm-mates AND the ASAs who live in this corner of the state.
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