sor vs frat size

[Rudey]

I have a question, is it generally true at all schools that sorors are definitely larger than the resident frats? At our school there is a 2:1 ratio. They definitely have an advantage because they have an organized formal rush through panhell while the frats are in fierce competition and would never cooperate to get more members.

[BrianMUDU]

That is true for Miami University. The largest fraternity on our campus is maybe around 120 guys. That is probably the average size for sororities, most are easily over 100 as far as I know.

[IowaHawkeye]

at my school, every sorority of the 12 but one is at campus quota - which is 120 - but the fraternities range anywhere from the largest, which has about 100 to the smallest which has 20.

[shadokat]

Ours are sort of the same...with most groups having 30-40. How do you have mixers with a fraternity that has 20 brothers when you have 120 sisters?

[twinstars]

That's true for my college as well... most sororities have about 100 members each after rush each winter (typical pledge classes of about 30), and most frats have about 45-50 (typical pledge classes of 10-14).

there are also about three times as many fraternity chapters as sororities on campus. the overall greek participation rates for men and women are about the same.

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[LexiKD]

I'm not sure about nationally, but at ECU our fraternities have no constant memebrship numbers, they range from 8-40 members.
Our NPC chapters have 65 total and they are usually up to that at all times, or at least close.

[Hootie]

I'm not sure how the IFC runs recruitment, but with Panhellenic at my school all the sororities are given a quota of 25, depending on the amount of girls recruiting. Generally two of the four sororities make quota and the other two fall short, like around 12 and 15. So that leaves approximately 75 girls that end up in a house. But I know with the four fraternities on campus, their numbers range daily. I had heard that Sig Ep on our campus recruited 100 men, but I sure haven't seen 100 new members. I think overall there are more Fraternity men on our campus than women. HOWEVER, us women are more prominant in getting involved and such.
Hope that makes sense.
I should also add that even though the fraternities have more numbers, it is prodominately in two houses. Likewise with the sororities.
Hootie

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[Rudey]

The sorors cap off at 60 for the 2 well established ones (aopi, theta). The DG's just started and are around 25 I think. Every once in a while you see an ad somewhere talking about kappa something something wanting to start a new sorority but it hasn't materialized yet for some reason. I also think there's one or two bglo's on campus but i don't know because they exist one day out of every 3 months when 2 girls walk around with their letters on.

The frats generally cap off in the 30's with the exception of fiji which gives bids to all the football players and I'd guess they're around 40-50. I can't even imagine doing a harcore rush and giving bids to 30 guys (I'd like to but I've just never experienced it).

I've seen this problem before at other schools too though and it just sucks. In wisconsin, they throw mixers with 2 frats and one soror to level up the numbers. Also my buddy in another of the frats tells me that he has to make sure all his guys come to an event involving sorors while the sorors have the luxury of allowing people to stay behind. I don't know...strange.

[AlphaChiGirl]

At my school, the fraternities are much larger than the sororities. There are 2 sororities, 8 fraternities, and 3 co-ed societies. A reason for the size difference is that the fraternities (for the most part) are all allied with a sport, meaning that 85-90% of its membership is a member of a specific team: football, lacrosse, wrestling, water polo, and baseball are all well-represented in some fraternities on campus.

[Lil_G]

Originally posted by AlphaChiGirl:
At my school, the fraternities are much larger than the sororities. There are 2 sororities, 8 fraternities, and 3 co-ed societies. A reason for the size difference is that the fraternities (for the most part) are all allied with a sport, meaning that 85-90% of its membership is a member of a specific team: football, lacrosse, wrestling, water polo, and baseball are all well-represented in some fraternities on campus.

Really? Greek intramural leagues must be really competitive. At my school very few athletes join fraternities, their teams are kind of like their own fraternity.

[dzrose93]

The ratio of sorority women to fraternity men at large schools seems to be more skewed than at smaller schools.

At my small campus, the top 2 fraternities had almost as many members as the sororities, which was around 45.

[SSS1365]

I go to a really small school, but I would definitely say that sororities have higher numbers here than frats do. There's also a 2:1 ratio of women to men overall here.

[Siobhan]

Originally posted by Lil_G:
Really? Greek intramural leagues must be really competitive. At my school very few athletes join fraternities, their teams are kind of like their own fraternity.

At UBC the Greeks make up the largest percentage of participants in Intramurals: not bad for a Greek System of 1000 on a campus of 30,000

[Siobhan]

At UBC it totally depends: the sororities have a ceiling (40) so we are all somewhere between 20 and 40; the fraternities are all over the place: the lowest having 8 members and the largest 100+.

[MafiaCSUS]

At CSU, Sacramento, Sororities have a limit of 65 girls. Fraternities have no limits. A lot of chapters do pass individual requirements... like mine. SigEp is supposed to have 40 men or we get put on notice to close from nationals. The biggest fraternity is about 100 the next is 80 and then we are the third with 50.