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I'm one of the seniors that checked out. I went temp alum for my last semester, and most girls do the same. For me it was 3 reasons:
1. Our chapter has a fairly high attrition rate. Out of my pledge class of 27, only 5 of us were left. Total is 90, and we stay at total, butwe do so by constantly recruiting. We have about 30 drops every year, resulting in a very young chapter that I can't relate to.
2. My university realized that the grand diploma doesn't mean as much as it used to. Becuase of this, my program and just about every other program has an internship required or some other form of pre-professionalism (student teaching, etc.) As a result, I'm only a normal college student 2 days a week. I don't spend as much time on campus, and I'm tired all of the time.
3. It's a problem across the board at my school. I was just talking about this with my other order of omega members. One of the other side effects is that since the chapters we would social with, every one goes TA or stops participating, there's really no reason to go to socials becuase then you just hang out with a bunch of freshmen. What's left of sorority membership? Meetings. Ugh.
It would help if we had more interaction with our alums, if they did something, anything in terms of helping us with the great job hunt. They started a senior committee my sophomore year, but they just give out awards. No one's really given me any reason to stick around, and in the chapter now there are only about 40 of the ones who were in it my sophomore year. I'm sorry, but I just can't relate to a group of mostly freshmen.
It would also help if they were a little more lax on attendance policies with the older girls. We have senior status too, but it just gives you the right to miss one meeting a month. When ritual workshops are 5 hours nlong, and meetings are 3 hours, plus monthly 2 hour anti-alchohol videos, time can be sucked dry senior year, and when your classes get hard, and you have this little time already, you really can't do that.
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