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Originally posted by Tex1899
Sort of off topic...why do most BGLO and Hispanic GLO chapters tend to be smaller than NIC/NPC groups? I'm not too familiar with traditionally Asian groups...do they tend to be smaller?

If I had to guess, I would think Hispanic and Asian GLO's would be bigger in California...

IMHO, BGLO's, LGLO's, and AGLO's tend to be smaller because of a couple of factors:

1) The preception that our organizations only accept members of our racial/ethnic backgrounds. This relates to local-level marketing (sad, but true in many areas....members do not openly look to market toward all members of the campus) and the historic reasons for which the organization was founded.

2) The size of our racial/ethnic groups on most college campuses for which our orgs. normally attract as potential members.

Because of these reasons (and others that are likely campus-specific), our organizations tend to be smaller. Also, our selection processes (like all GLO's) are stringent so even all of those who are interested are not selected. Consequently, schools where there are larger numbers of certain racial/ethnic groups, organizations may likely still end up being smaller or mid-size (whatever one would consider the size being in those categories).

At some schools, our organizations tend to be larger (ex: HBGLO's at HBCU's) where the population has larger concentrations of those groups that our organizations have historical ties too. And HWGLO's that have chapters are these schools tend to reflect the same smaller chapter numbers that the other organizations do at other schools.