Ole Miss recuitment 2010

[OleMissGlitter]

Quota was different this year.
Freshmen Quota 84
Upperclassmen Quota 9

About 950 PNMs started recruitment last week. (There were some drop outs before recruitment even started). ALL chapters made quota this year from what I have heard.
AOII-96
Phi Mu-94
Theta-95
DG-95
Not sure on numbers for the rest but from seeing pics on FB, it looks like all made quota.

Most of the houses sleep anywhere from 48-75 members. I think they all require their sophomores and officers to live in the house. (Although I want to say 1 or 2 chapters require seniors and officers, can't remember which ones.) However, obviously each new member class can't live in the house. So most of the chapters have floors in one of the dorms (Crosby Hall) for their sophomores. Living in Crosby is actually one of the best things I think the sororities every "required." It allows members to meet freshmen who live on campus and I think it creates healthy competition to sorority life. For example, two different sororities might share a floor in Crosby so that can make things interesting! Plus, it keeps your younger members on campus. As an adviser I have found that when a member moves off campus early in college they usually lose interest in Greek Life and I have even seen some who suffer academically. For most sororities, I think as long as their beds are full that is fine with most sororities on campus

[sasquatch]

I see what you're saying 33girl, but you'd be surprised. We are talking about 18 year old girls, after all. Most really just want to be able to wear letters of a top house and have mixers with the top fraternities. It's often times not really about the kind of "sisterhood" you might find at smaller or less greek oriented schools.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by sasquatch

I see what you're saying 33girl, but you'd be surprised. We are talking about 18 year old girls, after all. Most really just want to be able to wear letters of a top house and have mixers with the top fraternities. It's often times not really about the kind of "sisterhood" you might find at smaller or less greek oriented schools.

So based on this, do you think the women wouldn't care if the chapters had 800 people in them? Maybe you're mixing with the "top fraternities" but no matter how huge they are relative to other chapters nationally, I don't think the fraternities will ever be as large as the sororities. What fun is it to go to a mixer and talk to no one but other girls all night? Unless you have a mixer with one sorority and 5 fraternities.

[sasquatch]

Well, your example is a little exaggerated and quite frankly, impossible logistics wise. A sorority that big simply couldn't operate. Anyways, no I don't think girls would want to join a sorority that big, but you're kind of missing my point. I'm making a lot of assumptions here, but I don't think I'm off base at all for the most part. I was just saying that "most" freshmen girls aren't really too worried about anything other than being able to wear XYZ letters and all that goes along with that. As far as girls just talking amongst themselves at mixers. I mean, it happens. A lot. They're there for the free alcohol just as much as they are to "mix" per se.

As far as sororities generally being a lot bigger than fraternities. That's true, but at least at my undergrad girls generally stopped going to mixers after junior year and go straight to the bars. With guys, it's much later. Some never stop going, but most that are of age at least go to pregame for the bars. So the ratio is generally pretty even anyways.

[33girl]

If the only reason you join a sorority is for letters, free alcohol, and to stop attending the most fun events once you're a junior, quite frankly, I fail to see the point. I guess it's a North vs South thing again.

[sasquatch]

I'm not passing judgment on it, either way. I'm just saying that's how it is a lot of times.

[OleMissGlitter]

There are some that are joining for certain "letters" but seriously do you think all 800 something that got bids only went through recruitment for free alcohol and parties? Geez. Maybe I'm naive but I'm pretty sure they are all looking for more than that in a sorority at Ole Miss.

I don't believe there are any fraternities that are bigger than any sororities at Ole Miss. I know Sigma Nu gave out 60 bids, Sigma Chi 80 bids, Sig Ep about 50 bids, just to name a few. The bigger fraternities probably have around 180members and the smaller ones about 30-40 members. Many sororities are doing joint swaps now with two sororities and two fraternities. Most upperclassmen don't attend swaps/mixers so it's your younger crowd. Even when I was in college it always felt like there were more women than men at mixers and that was when average sorority chapter size was about 175!