Advisor's Recruitment Story

[KDMafia]

What percentage of the chapter lives in the dorm housing?

How big are the pledge classes in the fall?

Sister's have to live in the dorm sophmore and junior year, so they effectively spend 3 of their four college years living in a freshman dorm. Pledge classes this past fall were different. This is my first year fully advising although I know the previous fall we couldn't take anyone because we were at total but the previous years, before total was lowered allowed people to have fall pledge classes up to 10-11. There is one chapter who is struggling due to an issue of members deactivating. My chapter had a large graduating senior class so was able to pledge 7. We were the largest, the rest were only 1-4. Even us, with pledging 7, we struggled because we had way more girls coming than even we had spots for, which is usually a good thing but sucks when normally in the fall, with the higher total we could usually replace way more.

The economy might have something to do with it but the PanHellenic advisor seems to believe it's due to lack of interest of the freshman women. It seems that many girls realize their sophmore year that greek life is more appealing. A combination of seeing their friends that go greek and also seeing more of greek life after out combination of greek week and spring week events.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by KDMafia

the previous years, before total was lowered allowed people to have fall pledge classes up to 10-11. There is one chapter who is struggling due to an issue of members deactivating. My chapter had a large graduating senior class so was able to pledge 7. We were the largest, the rest were only 1-4. Even us, with pledging 7, we struggled because we had way more girls coming than even we had spots for, which is usually a good thing but sucks when normally in the fall, with the higher total we could usually replace way more.

Sooooooooo let me get this straight (if I've inferred too much, let me know). The reason total was lowered was theoretically because girls were dropping out of formal and going through informal, to enable the smaller chapters to catch up; however, all the groups have been actually pledging similar numbers during formal and informal, but one group has been struggling because the girls keep self-terminating.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMkay.

It sounds to me like the group with the disaffiliation problem needs to work on their own problems instead of asking Panhel to lower total, and get their @#$% together, because if there's a bunch of disaffiliated women running around a small campus, it doesn't do anything good for Greek life in general.

Like I said - if that wasn't exactly the situation, let me know. I'm all for lowering total when it needs to be done, but this doesn't sound like a good case for it.