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Wow, Carnation, you started quite a thread!
From the many responses, disenchantment seems to be common in many NPC groups. Therefore, it seems to me that this is something that NPC itself should address, and work with campus Panhellenics.
I have long wished that membership statistics would be available just to see the average new member class size, percentage of NMC initiated, etc., etc. I'm sure that NPC collects those and I'm sure they don't publish them because people would glom onto "oh, I can only pledge Pi Xi because they initiate more new members than any other group."
Thinking back three decades to my cohort: my small chapter COBd all the time. Of the 9 of us initiated (3/13/71), 2 left the university after that year, 1 (a junior transfer from another college) deactivated; 6 of us stayed with it. That spring we had a really successful COB--I believe we initiated 11 and 5 names come to mind as women who stayed until they graduate. Alas, quota/total that year was 33/68 and we never did make up the numbers.
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