what is a "big" class for you?

[_Lisa_]

The year I pledged there were 60 girls in my pledge class, I believe 56 was the total initiated that semester too.

[Glitter650]

I joined in spring with a class of 5 all together. For my school average is becoming about 22 for fall. When I joined average for fall was about 13-17

[ZTAngel]

The year I pledged there were 66 women in my pledge class. We had 71 new members the following year. Since quota is so high at my school, I guess I couldn't really consider anything to be a large pledge class. Maybe over 100 would be large at my school!

[deadbear80]

Quota at my school when I pledged was 32. That was with 6 sororities and about 210 girls going through. For a while, my school had only 5 chapters due to a closure and had pledge classes of upwards of 50+. Big difference! Now that there are six chapters again, classes are smaller...but with the size of my school and its greek life, I would say anything over 50 is large in my book.
If I had gone to a state school, I'm sure I would think 50 was nothing.

[g41965]

In the 4 years I was active our pledge classes went like this:

Fall 1984 24
Spring 1985 5
Fall 1985 8
Spring 1986 6
Fall 1986 13
Spring 1987 6
Fall 1987 11
Spring 1988 5
Fall 1988 12
Spring 1989 5

[doves95]

Originally posted by UKTriDelt
My pledge class was 63, quota for our school was 62 (we had a junior in my pledge class). The schools farther South have what I consider to be big pledge classes

Geography is really irrelevant to new member (NOT PLEDGE) class sizes. Like another post said really its dependant on the size of the university and mostly the strength of the greek system. most larger universities will have about 30-60 in a new member class. Med size schools are usually 15-25 and smaller schools about 10-15 ina formal recruitment period. BUT I have seen small universities with 5 NPC chapters and have new member classes of like 40 for the fall b.c 20% or more of the women are greek...

spring or COR (COB'ing) is usually smaller like 3-10 girls but one of my chapters does poor on formal and rocks out on COB to like 5 formal girls and 25 for informal

[ProPhetic1]

A normal pledge class for us is 3-5 member. I would say anything that reaches 10+ would be big

[DeltaEtaKP]

Originally posted by doves95
BUT I have seen small universities with 5 NPC chapters and have new member classes of like 40 for the fall b.c 20% or more of the women are greek...

That's my school. We have 4 NPC chapters and almost 70% of women are Greek. Still with our school having only 1200 students total, and about 200 female fresmen, our quota (and pledge classes) are usually around 30 (27-32). 35 would be large. 20 would be small.

[chideltjen]

30 is pretty big around here. Average Fall classes are usually 10-25 new members.

[PiPhiGirl2005]

Quota is typically 15-16 for formal recruitment. A "big" pledge class for us would be anything approaching 20 (18-20) and a "small" pledge class (for formal recruitment) would be 11-12.

We've been bordering on "small" formal pledge classes the past two years; however, we've been doing really well in fall informal recruitment. We've had "big" informal classes (10 and 13) the past two years, while both other houses on campus have had "small" ones (5-6).

[Drunkie679]

At our school it has many ranges, a big pledge class for our house would be 30+ guys in fall and 15+ guys in the spring. But that is just a few house on campus, other house 10+ is big for fall

[doves95]

Originally posted by DeltaEtaKP
That's my school. We have 4 NPC chapters and almost 70% of women are Greek. Still with our school having only 1200 students total, and about 200 female fresmen, our quota (and pledge classes) are usually around 30 (27-32). 35 would be large. 20 would be small.

Yes Georgetown college for our sorority--Sigma kappa- is one of our successful chapters. They usually present a recruitment skit at the training workshops we have and one current national council member is an alum. This is a unique campus in great strength of its greeks for a small college.