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A friend of mine was in a chapter with more than 150 actives. Being from a chapter of 45 actives, I asked her, how the hell can you possibly be friends with all of your sisters? How do you learn who they all are during your new member period? And how do you vote on someone during officer elections, when you don't really know someone?

Her answer to me was that often times, on her campus, in the South, there is a core of women, usually 30-40, that run the chapter (holding offices, dealing with the business side). She said in her NM class of 60, she probably only got to know 30 of them well, and that it isn't uncommon to walk across campus, see a girl in your letters, and have a hard time remembering who she is. She told me that the sorority experience there is what you make of it. She made some fabulous, lifelong friends, but wasn't particularly close to more than say 30 or so women, most her new member class.

As for the socials, well, what can you do other than pair up with another fraternity to make up the #s differences? It seems that's the way it works with homecoming/greek week, etc., and it works.

As for diversity, I've seen some of those southern composites, and 250 girls does not diversity make, sorry!