Too fat to recruit: or, DePauw, the Sequel

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum

Kind of oddly, I came across the same stats while I was looking for something else today.

Certainly, I don't think that most people who are Greek has an SEC-type recruitment experience, but as a percentage of total members, since the competitive Greek systems are usually also some of the largest, you can't really assume that because they make up a relatively small percentage of campuses that they also make up an equally small number of members.

Or put another way, one Auburn university with 800 girls pledging cancels out several more moderately sized campuses.

It's hard to say conclusively since we have that 22% of campus quotas unaccounted for, and we don't know what the average quota size is at the campuses where it's bigger than 30.

(It's a little weird to think about, but the SEC alone probably mints 7,000 new NPC members a year. Then you have the big competitive recruitments in other regions, and the number of Greeks overall who can relate to the weirdness of competitive recruitment could be lot higher than you'd first think.)

If we really want to geeky, we could look at the recruitment dates thread and figure the approximate percentages of members coming from each kind of system.

ETA: I was that geeky, and before my eyes glazed over, I realized that there were too many quotas not listed to be able to tell. But here's what I'd guess: the 19% of campuses with 30+ new member classes make up around half of all NPC members. (but of course, we don't really know that 30+ quota really equates with "really competitive.")

Adding to this, my campus had a quota of 50(ish) and I wouldn't consider it competitive. So there are definitely larger quotas out there on non-competitive campuses. Just a point of information. Y'all can get back to what you were doing.