Double cohort

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As the Canadians, especially those of us in ontario are aware, the double cohort is on its way after next year. This will make getting into unversities harder and also increase the level of incomers every year for the net few years which i will describe below.

1) Obviously two graduating classes means more kids so you have all the kids coming out of hs right then

2) kids taking a year off to avoid the double cohort

3) kids going to college and trhen coming to university afterwards

4) kids in the military getting work experience before they go to university. This has been known to happen in the US

Even kids that dont go to school in ontario will end up increasing the enrollments at places like UBC and Mcgill somewhat tho it will be nothing compared to Queen's, UofT, Ottawa, Western etc.

Increased numbers of kids will get athletic scholarships to places like Michigan State (look at the number of canadian women on their rowing team) so that will have a slight effect on enrollment south of the border.

This can be a great time for the greek system because more kids = more PNMs. As i said above, it will affect not just this year's enrollments but the years to come as well, not to mention kids going to grad schools. This means that there will be a spike of incoming students my 4th year that will be larger than the spike of the kids in my class over the one before us and we have 1000 more people in 0T5 in 0T4.

How will this affect the greek system in Canada and the northern states (Michigan for example) in terms of membership and visibility. Do you guys think that the greek system can have an increased level and increased participation due to the double cohort? Will this be a spark of a renaissance of the greek system?

Is there a chance that perhaps Maclean's will include some thing in the annual issue if the head of that issue;s son becomes part of a greek organization or simply to put it in there to better benefit parents of the double cohort year?

Will the greek organizations recruit aggresively (I don't mean to say recruit in a negatuive way but make their presence known) and do you guys think that the level of membership will rise? UofT offers residence space to every incoming frosh but they still house kids in the Primrose so I think fraternities at schools such as mine can make a push to get themselves recognized or at least allowed more recruiting and point out that residence is crammed but fraternities still have rooms available some of which go out to boarders. Allow fraternity and sorority material to be in the acceptance packages as well as frosh kids.. let kids know about the greek system

If the university agrees to the above in the cohort year, do you guys think that maybe some universities will be able to establish colonies, thus somewhat offseting to a degree the problems that will be faced in residence accomodations? This would benefit all three parties involved: the student; the university; and the greek organizations.

Because this seems to be a golden oppurtunity for the greek system, will alumni activity and involvement increase?

I'm sorry that this is long but it all came out of reading that one thread on quotas. The largest fraternity here has maybe 20-30 kids living in the house and my sports team had less than 10 guys, most of whom were first year (one graduated this year and the other graduates after next year) while there were 40-50 kids on my hs varsity crew (all guys) and many frats in the states have twice the number of kids living in the house as does the local Beta Thete Pi chapter.