Less popular sororities

[bejazd]

HDL.....I agree that's a real issue on some, but not all campuses. Which is why sadly not all struggling chapters can be saved. Going way way back to the start of this discussion someone said "less popular sororities. happens on every campus. sucks." so I'm trying to direct my thoughts to the broadest range of situations.

I am hopefully optimistic that we as NPC women are capable of controlling our own destinies and valuing what lifetime membership has to offer us...on a little deeper and more mature level than say, where many of us were at socially in middle school or high school.

[RushLeader08]

if these girls would just act like nothing is wrong then no one will think anything is wrong!!!

[UGAalum94]

EW, I think that it's cool that the chapters rush each other during spirit week and that could go along way towards building relationships between sororities.

The only "struggling" chapter that I know of that went from struggling to completely consistently solid was at the stage where they were getting assistance from their national organization during recruitment when I went through rush because they were maybe half the size of other chapters and having difficulty with numbers.

It took a little less than a decade; it wasn't any kind of immediate change, but I can remember being out of school a few years and learning that not only were they no longer struggling with not making quota or low numbers, but that they were pledging girls who also preffed groups that had traditionally been much stronger.

Today they are a completely solid and well regarded chapter. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly how they did it. I think it was first great alumnae and support from the GLO itself, which is nationally a strong and well regarded group. The girls were working really hard even back when I rushed. You could tell that they were doing everything they could to have the best rush. The next stage probably involved a little help from the UGA HOPE grant because it meant more girls from more areas were going to UGA. (which meant they could break away from only having to recruit people with a sense of "tradition" and/or the "everyone knows that XYZ is for homecoming queens" mentally that someone correctly noted above).

I really wish I knew more about how they did it.