What’s it like to be in a Huge Chapter?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Titchou

That's not exactly accurate, DBB. Alabama's recruitment historically has been before classes and our football season start. So saying we "won't" do it is, at best, misleading. College here starts in mid August so recruitment is the week before classes begin. The first games of football season are now usually the Thursday thru Saturday of Labor Day weekend.

Originally Posted by irishpipes

I believe you're confusing Alabama with Ole Miss. Alabama always goes before school starts in August. Ole Miss schedules around football and does occasionally conflict with Jewish Holidays.

Mea culpa! I am confusing my giant SEC recruitments. It was Ole Miss that we discussed here previously.

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Mea culpa! I am confusing my giant SEC recruitments. It was Ole Miss that we discussed here previously.

Take heart that you didn't confuse it with Michigan, where home football games and Jewish High Holy Days are avoided when scheduling recruitment. Then some people gripe about recruitment taking two and a half weeks....

[TriDeltaSallie]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

Take heart that you didn't confuse it with Michigan, where home football games and Jewish High Holy Days are avoided when scheduling recruitment. Then some people gripe about recruitment taking two and a half weeks....

We had one recruitment at Michigan State that ran over three weeks one year because of the way the football games and Jewish holidays fell. Then you add on the work week before that and it was a solid month of rush with most of it during the time after classes had started. And then there were a number of chapters that had to COB after formal rush. It was a nightmare.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

We had one recruitment at Michigan State that ran over three weeks one year because of the way the football games and Jewish holidays fell. Then you add on the work week before that and it was a solid month of rush with most of it during the time after classes had started. And then there were a number of chapters that had to COB after formal rush. It was a nightmare.

Insanity! Go early, 2 weeks, get it done, sleep for a couple of days...start school.

[tallgreekalum]

I am just having the hardest time relating. Our two biggest chapters pledge 30 something men a PC. Most are in the teens (although many chapters have two rushes per year.

[33girl]

The above post bring something up. We focus so much on sororities we don't really talk about the fraternity side. At Ole Miss, Alabama, etc are there fraternities thut have membership in the hundreds? Or are there just lots more fraterprnities and they have double mixers or double event pairings?

[Hartofsec]

Originally Posted by 33girl

The above post bring something up. We focus so much on sororities we don't really talk about the fraternity side. At Ole Miss, Alabama, etc are there fraternities thut have membership in the hundreds? Or are there just lots more fraterprnities and they have double mixers or double event pairings?

A fraternity pledge class of 45 is considered around average for a large fraternity at Alabama -- many fraternities pledge fewer. For a comparison of total members and new members of sororities and fraternities, see the 2014 Fall grade report:

http://greekaffairs.ua.edu/documents...radeReport.pdf

Even (back in the distant day) when sorority quota was around 40, fraternities pledged far fewer and their membership was probably around half that of sororities.