Concerned about my chapter

[aephi alum]

I'm a bit concerned about my chapter.

I haven't seen anyone else from my alma mater posting here, so hopefully this is safe.

I just received partial spring formal rush results from my alma mater. AEPhi matched four; two other sororities (out of five NPC orgs) matched 26 and 27. I don't know how the other two did.

This was their second year of deferred recruitment. Deferred rush means that all five sororities are under total (80) at the start of fall semester because the senior class graduates. AEPhi was the only sorority not to have a fall pledge class this year.

My chapter has always been on the wrong side of the numbers game, because of how we were colonized (from a small local - the previous two colonizations were done from the ground up).

I feel frustrated because there's not much I can do as an alum to help them out. I couldn't take time off work to help with recruitment. I feel like all I can do is get COB ideas from GC and elsewhere and present them to my chapter (and they'd better get to the COB'ing!)

I think the plain fact of the matter is that my school cannot support five sororities with deferred recruitment, and AEPhi, as the smallest chapter, is the most at risk to close.

And to think, just a few years ago we were talking about expanding to six sororities.

I just hate watching something I worked hard to bring to fruition, dying by pieces...