If you could determine your pledge class size...

[hootyhoo]

What would you want it to be? I know many chapters are very small and intimate and then there are the huge pledge classes common in the SEC. I have 82 in mine and I'm proud to say I know every single girl but sometimes I wish my school would expand and it would come down more around 40-50. What do you guys think? Bigger? Smaller? Or the same?

[33girl]

There weren't 82 people in a whole chapter (any of the chapters) at my school. That is not the sort of sorority experience I would ever want. I had 5 in mine, but 10-11 would have been OK. Any larger than that and cliques and factions seem to form.

[pshsx1]

Same boat as 33girl here.

I'm happy with the 18 I was with although the whole class did not remain. 15-18 is ideal to me. Big enough to get a few different characters and definitely small enough to become close.

[Senusret I]

11 was just right for my APO experience. I would have been comfortable with up to 20.

For Alpha..... no comment.

[Titchou]

I had almost 40 in mine...and that was fine. I sort of like larger ones so there are more folks to do the work...more talent to spread things around to...

[gammaowl]

I've been in both small and large pledge classes. For APO I had over 60 pledge brothers, while in FIJI I had less than 10. Even though I knew everyone in my APO pledge class, I definitely felt like I was closer to my FIJI pledge class because we were smaller.

[qbt1990]

I seriously would KILL to be in a chapter that had 80-100+ NMs in each class. I think it would be really great to meet that many girls and have more options of people to befriend.

(My own PC had around 35)

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by 33girl

There weren't 82 people in a whole chapter (any of the chapters) at my school. That is not the sort of sorority experience I would ever want. I had 5 in mine, but 10-11 would have been OK. Any larger than that and cliques and factions seem to form.

If 82 is an average size, seems like that one chapter had more Greeks then my entire school did. I had 7, and I loved it. My APO pledge class had 11 I think, but it was hard to coordinate things with everybody.

[lovespink88]

Technically my pledge class was 128...but we were a colony

Classes at my school range from upper 40s to upper 50s, depending how many PNMs there are that year.

I think I would have been okay with anywhere from 30-50.

[KSUViolet06]

I tend to think that my school has always had pretty good pledge class sizes.

They're typically in the 20s or 30s.

I think the pledge class sizes are good. They're big enough that girls can find other girls who share their interests, and not so small that you would end up with an "odd girl out" situation where let's say 4 NMs all are BFFs and leave the 5th one out. I was a COB girl, but I would have been fine in a class of that size.

My class had 3 girls in it (informal) and I would've liked a couple more. The spring class sizes tended to vary with the number of spaces each chapter had open, but they were usually no more than maybe 10.

[Ggirl617]

My pledge class was around 35-40 and I think this is about the perfect number for me.

[jennyj87]

We've been steadily increasing over the years. My pledge class was 45, next was 65 and this past years was 76. They're looking in the 80's this year. So my chapter is looking at about 200 which may not be too crazy, but we're a small school (only 11000) with 3 NPC sororities. The boys in our schools chapters are only around 70 at the most.

I would have to say I would like a pledge class around 25-40. That would be good to get to know. We had a lot of trouble this year with 76 girls. I can't imagine what its going to be like this year. :-/

[aephi alum]

The idea of an 82-person new member class boggles my mind. Where I went to school, total was 80. How can you really feel a sisterly bond with 81 pledge sisters and 300+ people in your chapter?? (To say nothing of things like membership selection and initiation taking all day and half the night...!)

To me, 20-25 people is a good NM class size. If you get much bigger than that, it becomes more difficult for the NM class to bond. If you get much smaller than that, and that's not the norm for your campus (e.g. every chapter but yours takes 80-100 NMs each year and your chapter takes 3-5 per year), then the NM class may bond nicely (or may hate each other's guts) - but your chapter will become too small to be viable. (I'm obviously taking an NPC perspective here.)

[BabyPiNK_FL]

35-50. About 40 appears to be a good working number amongst orgs at my alma mater.

[Leslie Anne]

My pledge class had 36 members. It was a nice size but I think it would have been closer-knit at around 25 or so.