How Big Are You?

[SurfinDBeach]

Those numbers are a little too weird on that second post...

The second post makes no sense...

From what i've heard and have SEEN from the website you provided, there's no one with over 300 chapters right now in terms of fraternities...

Where exactly did you get the numbers that you posted on this board?

The Ariesrising numbers are on the following website which is a CLEAR LINK on the provided Ariesrising that displays most numbers of chapters and initiates:

http://www3.telus.net/ariesrising/numbers.html

That looks like the 1st one and is clearly labeled as updated to July 2004...


OH, and BY THE WAY, EVERY Fraternity has WEAK chapters...

I've seen WEAK TKE Chapters, WEAK SAE Chapters, WEAK Sig Ep Chapters, etc... ANd all 3 of those aformetioned are stong on my campus...
It all depends on the school and the system...





GO BEACH!!!
GO T K E!!! (STILL the LARGEST FRATERNITY IN THE WORLD)...

[AUDeltaGam]

Originally posted by CarolinaCutie
Yeah, once it was explained to me, I could see how it would happen. GOOD JOB DG!

And yay for Phi Mu, which has a strong chapter at Auburn

[Erik P Conard]

if you have a good chapter adviser, one who will come to most
of the meetings...and
if you have a good board who meets...without exception...each month and has reports from...
chapter president
house manager & house mother, if applicable
chapter treasurer (board the baddies, tho, bill collectors)
rush chairman & pledge trainer
pledge president, if possible and time permits...
Advisers, board members, even old grouches like me...we really
care...and we love our fraternity! We weep when we lose a chapter and have orphaned alumni...we really do.
Help us to keep you a winner! Fraternity is for life.
Do this, and you will win....for the rest of your life!

[LAKDgirl]

To confirm KD has over 180,000 members.
We have 487 chartered Alumnae Assoc. Chapters (almost at 500!)
I do believe that we do have 127 active college chapters
and we have 207 chartered chapters.

[33girl]

Originally posted by Rudey
See I was hoping NIC or one of the umbrella orgs would be willing to do it or had the numbers and then shared. But again, in all honesty, I don't believe in this ever occuring.

-Rudey

I don't either. People don't want to talk about retention or lack of same with other groups - it's the elephant in the room.

[seraphimsprite]

Sigma Kappa actually publishes our annual report with a lot of this information on the public section of our website. Its not completely up to date but according to the 2002-2003 annual report we have:
108 collegiate chapters
8,335 collegiate members
(which if you do the math means we have an average chapter size of about 77.)
We also have 145 active alumnae chapters and clubs.
As of June 1, 2003, there were 135,862 total members.

Oh and for whoever was asking about retention and gpa, we had an 85% initiation rate and the averge gpa was 3.02.

Now wouldn't it be great if every org released this information?

[sairose]

Sigma Alpha Iota

# of active college chapters: 200ish
# of active alum chapters: about 120

Total # of initiates since 1903: about 100,000

Not sure how many active members; I'll look into that.

[Betarulz!]

Originally posted by DeltaSigStan
I refuse to believe Sigma Chi isn't in the top THREE. I don't think I've ever heard of a weak Sig Chi chapter

Or TKE

I can name a couple...of both...

(no offense to either Sigma Chis or TKE's, just saying that since every group has weak chapters, I just so happen to be able to point to a couple that would fall in that category. I know that there are some equally weak Beta chapters and would never pretend to believe otherwise.)

[gphib_95]

I just updated my site with a Numbers section, that has all updated numbers. Some are outdated (the smaller organizations especially), but many are as current as I could find on official sites and from GC of course lol.

Gamma Phi's is still wrong. It should be 130,000 members. According to Gamma Phi's website.

[msn4med1975]

This is late but I was looking for this thread after reading the Delta Zeta article. Not sure how they are the second largest if you include NPHC sororities but for the record Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated has about 950 undergraduate and alumnae chapters and has initiated 250,000 plus women since 1913. Every organization in the NPHC, except Iota Phi Theta which was founded a significant time after the other 8 orgs (but still have about 50K members) membership totals exceeds 100K.

[jharb]

Jesus is huge in america.

[AGDee]

As of March, 2004, we had 137,947 initiated members, 180 collegiate chapters (111 of which are active) and 120 alumnae chapters/clubs (only active ones counted there), but they didn't include Junior Circles (our 35 and under groups) because they are 'attached' to one of the other chapters/clubs.

I have to assume that chapters have had recruitment and initiation since March '04, so the total initiated members would increase. This is why it's difficult to keep numbers updated!

Dee

[SapphireSphinx9]

ok this may sound dumb, but i read a few posts about fraternities endowments... what exactly are those?

[SapphireSphinx9]

also, according to an email i received the other day this is the information on phi sigma sigma:

Currently, Phi Sigma Sigma has over 55,000 initiated members worldwide, with 107 collegiate chapters and colonies and 35 alumnae groups across North America.

[omegamcgee]

We only have 6! We're brand new though, and our campus only has 500 people. We're hoping to rush 3 this semester, and at least 5 next semester though...we're local, so no min requirements!