Assigning Bigs/Littles

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my daughter is newly initiated, and i think that her chapter used a novel solution to what could have been a big big sister/little sister problem.

there were more girls participating in recruitment last year(2005) and consequently larger pledge classes than this years. all the girls who were pledges last year wanted little sisters and there were not enough for everyone to have one. at first, the officers were going to use gpa to determine who would get a little sister-the higher the gpa the higher on the list you would be. then they came up with a unique solution-some new members would get two big sisters. my daughter was one of the lucky new members who got two bigs-she was delighted, because she was having a difficult time deciding which of the two girls who ended up being her bigs to list as first. the bigs don't seem to mind that they are sharing one little and they even came up with a term for themselves-they call themselves bigsters.

when the chapter i advise was a colony, they randomly drew names out of a hat to determine matches for "crown" sisters-since they were all new members, there could be no bigs and littles. Crown sisters performed the same functions as big/little would have.

congratulations on your election and good luck with the colonization process!