What is the largest national sorority? - Page 6

ksig600 · #1 10-02-2002, 06:45 PM

With over 200,000 initiates, 204 chapters, and 6 colonies, Kappa Sigma HAS to be in the top 5.

CarolinaDG · #2 10-03-2002, 10:07 AM

Are there Panhellenic National awards? Like, Order of Omega awards on a national level? I'd like to see where everyone lies as far as strength as well as numbers.

And whoever said something about the region thing, that's definitely true. ZTA is really strong in South Carolina, but Alpha Xi Delta, for example, although the one chapter that they have is strong, that's the only one in SC. But also, even the same sorority in the same state can hold different reputations. Kappa Kappa Gamma at Clemson has the complete opposite reputation from Kappa Kappa Gamma here, for example. And Theta, which was struggling with numbers here before they left, is one of the biggest at Clemson. I have no idea how that happens. I would think that it would be about the same (like ZTA or ADPi in this state, which are consistent from school to school) across the state.

NiaX · #3 10-03-2002, 11:43 AM

To go back and to understand what was said:

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Originally posted by gphibgirl96
I am just curious to know what the largest national sorority is?
What are some of the smaller national ones?

Are you, gphibgirl96, meaning NPC or any Sorority? Do you mean, active or total number of chapters?
If so, my Sorors and I, of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. have the men of IFC and the Women of NPC beat ! My soror, Lady Greek, said in an earlier post, that we have 393 collegiate chapters out of 887 total chapters, and over 250,000 members with over 35,000 active sorors.
Not trying to brag, but when asking questions like this, please be specific. Someone had said earlier that Chi Omega was just a bit smaller than Girl Scouts of America. Now, I can understand that the point was made to let you know how many ChiO members there are, but please let us compare apples to apples (Shout out to MysticCat!

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MTSUGURL · #4 10-03-2002, 03:52 PM

If we're talking about ANY national sorority, Beta Sigma Phi has over 10,000 chapters. Actually, they're international, though, so I don't know if that helps you any.

honeychile · #5 10-03-2002, 09:09 PM

For what it's worth, when I was a new member, we were taught to memorize the NPC sororities, and to always remember that sororities & numbers can change drastically from chapter to chapter.

A little humility doesn't mean that you're not proud of your GLO!

honeychile

KellyO97 · #6 10-03-2002, 11:04 PM

"Today, Chi Omega is the largest women's fraternal organization in the world with 240,000 initiates, over 170 collegiate chapters, and over 230 alumnae chapters. Chi Omega is also the second largest women's organization in the United States after the Girl Scouts of America."

I'm not completely sure, but I think the actual number of active chapters now is close to 176. I have no idea how many chapters have been chartered in total.

Though all Chi-O's are proud of being the world's largest women's fraternal organization, I'm sure we would all agree every organization is special in it's own way!

MysticCat · #7 10-04-2002, 10:27 AM

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Originally posted by KellyO97
Though all Chi-O's are proud of being the world's largest women's fraternal organization, I'm sure we would all agree every organization is special in it's own way!

Of course, if the numbers in NiaX's post above are correct, then Chi-O is not the world's largest women's fraternal organization.

DGWannabe · #8 10-04-2002, 12:31 PM

I think you have to be careful b/c some people (not me but I have heard it) think that being the biggest is NOT something to brag about because you are not being selective enough. Biggest does not always mean best nor does it mean most prestigious and it varies so greatly from school to school. My chapter was an above average chapter, but my friends at another school always used to say things to me like, "GOSH! I can't believe you are an XYZ! At our school you'd never be that you'd be an ABC. XYZ here really is bad/snobby/rich/blonde/ traditional/athletic/ insert something I am not here." You know what I mean. Also, traditionally BGLO's have different colonization rules than NPC. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but the BGLO's at the many schools I've visited/attended never had many members. My last school had a chapter of 2. How can that be a chapter? If I had 1 million chapters of 2 I guess I could still be the "biggest" but really.....
But that is just my experience. It varies greatly where ever you go.

KillarneyRose · #9 10-04-2002, 01:32 PM

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Originally posted by DGWannabe
I think you have to be careful b/c some people (not me but I have heard it) think that being the biggest is NOT something to brag about because you are not being selective enough.

ROFL! This post just reminded me of when I was a Rho Chi and one of my rushees told me that she was the most interested in ABC sorority because it had eight members and must therefore be highly selective

FuzzieAlum · #10 10-04-2002, 01:32 PM

Therein lies the question ... how do you define biggest?

Most undergrad chapters?
Most total chapters (including grad or alum)?
Most people initiated?
Most living people initiated?
Most currently active collegians?
Most chapters installed (even if not active)?

You're going to come up with different answers ... From what I've seen on this thread, Beta Sigma Phi has the most chapters of any women's fraternal org. Most undergrad chapters, an NPHC group will win. You could narrow it down, say, "only collegiate fraternal orgs," or "only NPC orgs." Now clearly Chi O is the biggest NPC org, but I think it's a stretch to call them the biggest women's fraternal org, looking at the numbers of Beta and the NPHC groups.

honeychile · #11 10-04-2002, 05:39 PM

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Originally posted by KillarneyRose

ROFL! This post just reminded me of when I was a Rho Chi and one of my rushees told me that she was the most interested in ABC sorority because it had eight members and must therefore be highly selective

This is the VERY best type of story to come out of rush!

When I was a Rho Chi, one rushee was only interested in sororities that had blue as one of their colors!

sbhill2 · #12 10-04-2002, 05:52 PM

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Originally posted by honeychile

This is the VERY best type of story to come out of rush!

When I was a Rho Chi, one rushee was only interested in sororities that had blue as one of their colors!

That is funny to hear some of these ideas that people get about which sorority they watn beccause of stupid little thigns like that. Colors and numbers are not a good basis for selection but oh well - whatever those girls seem to want as long as they are happy....kinda odd but very funny.

MsVixen · #13 10-09-2002, 01:30 AM

CHI OMEGA is the largest women's organization.. second only to Girl Scouts.. This being fact, CHI OMEGA is the biggest national sorority.

Kevin · #14 10-09-2002, 02:21 AM

Sigma Nu is none of the above

I know we are in the top 7 in every category that they use to compare NIC groups.

Top 3 in most from what was said at our 60th Grand Chapter.

We want to be #1

sororitygirl2 · #15 10-09-2002, 11:44 AM

Can't this thread just die? People are getting so competitive! We have all heard these facts repeated over and over... no need to anymore!