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Step one is interest group. You get a group of interested men who are interested in starting A franterity. The final colony I was a part of resulted from three interest groups merging (Theta Chi, SAE, Sigma Pi).
Then, when you have enough men, done enough work, you get colonized. Then you are a colony untill you meet the charter requirements. It took us two years total time to go from interest group to chapter, which is the fastest time in fraternity history. Iota Epsilon at Georgia State was installed the same day as us, but because they were a colony longer, they got to be Iota Epsilon and we got to be Iota Zeta.
To move from colony to chapter you must have at least as many men as the average chapter size for your campus, and there are different ways to get an average size besides the arthimetic mean. We would have folded if had to get that, but they used a different forumla, the same one as in business stat. class. Then we got iniated (36 at one time) and then the next day we got installed as a chapter.
It is a lot of work, as some of the things other chapters have aren't there. Namely respect, you have to earn respect of other greek orgs. We went from one of our brothers being jumped for not joining another fraternity my fresh year to getting chapter of the year and best mixer award my sr. year.
Basically, there is a lot of paper work, and other types of work, esp. the first couple years after installation. But then things like the rush shirts, etc. get easier and the undergrads from Kappa pledge class won't be burded at all as much as undergrads from Beta class were. But it is totally worth it, as my name is on the charter, and they treat me like a god when I go back to visit.
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