To preface: my pledge class was right around 54 and total was around 130 I believe. It grew throughout my collegiate years.
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Do you know all of the women in your CHAPTER? or even your CLASS?
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I knew everyone by face, name, year, majors (usually) and typically something about them. It really depended on if they were at the house often. When I was a senior, I graduated early. I didn't get to know that pledge class as well as I wanted, but I still got to know them fairly well. I knew the seniors, juniors and sophomores when I pledged very well. I also knew the juniors and sophomores when I graduated very well. I could tell you the life story of almost everyone in PC. This is where I think living in is important. If you have a smaller chapter, it is easier to get everyone together other than at mandatory events. In larger chapters, it is always a struggle. If there is a common structure, people come over for meals, studying, hanging out etc. You end up hanging out with sisters you normally wouldn't without the shared structure either because you live together or convenience.
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At schools with such large groups, is there a reason they don't make the chapters smaller and then expand to have more chapters?
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I think the question could flip as well. Why have a bunch of small groups instead of having larger? Yes, there are different personalities, but at the same time, are the groups that different? As I got older, I really felt that I would have been comfortable with any group on my campus. I would have developed differently than I did, but I still feel like I would have done just as well.
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Don't get me wrong, I look at bid day pictures and videos and think "Wow, that would have been awesome to run with the other new members and see such a large group looking for me!"
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I feel like a small group would have been nice. If you aren't an outgoing person it can be easy to feel lost sometimes.
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Also, how does it work to select new members? How do you remember everyone? How does everyone get to meet all of the PNMs? My mind is boggled with such a large group!
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I'm not sure how to answer without going into membership selection. I will try my best to still answer. On pref night/bid day, I met women that we were thinking of bidding or had extended a bid, whose names I had only heard a few times and had never met. I trusted my sisters to know the chapter and to know what was best for the chapter. Every year this seemed to work out really well for us. This is also why GCers recommend that new members stick it out for a few weeks if they didn't like their bid because at the larger chapters a PNM really only meets a small portion of the chapter. This also probably plays into why it took me two years to realize that the chapters on my campus really weren't that different. You get 130 college women in a room and there is a spectrum. You add the filter of being interested in sororities and the spectrum narrows. I can almost guarantee that the distribution of women from that spectrum in the chapters might be different, but that all areas would be represented. Sure XYZ may have more cheerleaders, but ABC has a couple too. This also might be different in the SEC. I really can only speak for my campus, but it has been echoed, more or less, from others as well.
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