Live-in requirements?

[Eirbear]

We have a small house (holds 9 women), a President's apartment, and a dorm floor. Even with all of that, we have more women in our sorority than can fit in the affiliated areas. Our requirement is that sorority housing MUST be filled. I believe it just works out that pretty much all the sophomores live in an affiliated area (mostly the floor), then there are a few juniors on the Floor (mostly, the juniors who want to live in sorority housing live in the house), and the President and the sister of her choice lives in the apartment. There's no quarter requirement...as long as we have people volunteering to live in sorority housing, those who want to get student apartments are usually free to do so.

[Tex1899]

My fraternity has a chapter that gets their pledges, once they initiate, to sign a 2-year lease; they're 18 so it's a legal document. Their house capacity is 92, too. They probably overdid it when they expanded the house in '89...probably should have put capacity around 75.

We have a dormant chapter that had a 5 semester live-in requirement. That got them in the house more often than not for 3 full years.

We have another chapter that has I think a 5 or 6 semester live-in requirement. The house once held 75, but now it's rated for I think 51 or 52. Each fall they pledge only 17 (17x3=51).

The only drawback I see to having a 2+ year live-in requirement is usually the seniors aren't involved with the chapter, either by choice or because the "chapter" is the "house (ie who's living in the chapter house)."

[knitsnpurls]

We are not required to live in the house at my chapter. However, our house can only hold 41 girls out of 130+, so there's always more girls who want to live in the house than actually can. On my campus, all members of a sorority are required to have mealplans at their house though, regardless of where they live.