Ole Miss recuitment 2010

[sasquatch]

I see what you're saying 33girl, but you'd be surprised. We are talking about 18 year old girls, after all. Most really just want to be able to wear letters of a top house and have mixers with the top fraternities. It's often times not really about the kind of "sisterhood" you might find at smaller or less greek oriented schools.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by sasquatch

I see what you're saying 33girl, but you'd be surprised. We are talking about 18 year old girls, after all. Most really just want to be able to wear letters of a top house and have mixers with the top fraternities. It's often times not really about the kind of "sisterhood" you might find at smaller or less greek oriented schools.

So based on this, do you think the women wouldn't care if the chapters had 800 people in them? Maybe you're mixing with the "top fraternities" but no matter how huge they are relative to other chapters nationally, I don't think the fraternities will ever be as large as the sororities. What fun is it to go to a mixer and talk to no one but other girls all night? Unless you have a mixer with one sorority and 5 fraternities.

[sasquatch]

Well, your example is a little exaggerated and quite frankly, impossible logistics wise. A sorority that big simply couldn't operate. Anyways, no I don't think girls would want to join a sorority that big, but you're kind of missing my point. I'm making a lot of assumptions here, but I don't think I'm off base at all for the most part. I was just saying that "most" freshmen girls aren't really too worried about anything other than being able to wear XYZ letters and all that goes along with that. As far as girls just talking amongst themselves at mixers. I mean, it happens. A lot. They're there for the free alcohol just as much as they are to "mix" per se.

As far as sororities generally being a lot bigger than fraternities. That's true, but at least at my undergrad girls generally stopped going to mixers after junior year and go straight to the bars. With guys, it's much later. Some never stop going, but most that are of age at least go to pregame for the bars. So the ratio is generally pretty even anyways.

[33girl]

If the only reason you join a sorority is for letters, free alcohol, and to stop attending the most fun events once you're a junior, quite frankly, I fail to see the point. I guess it's a North vs South thing again.

[sasquatch]

I'm not passing judgment on it, either way. I'm just saying that's how it is a lot of times.

[OleMissGlitter]

There are some that are joining for certain "letters" but seriously do you think all 800 something that got bids only went through recruitment for free alcohol and parties? Geez. Maybe I'm naive but I'm pretty sure they are all looking for more than that in a sorority at Ole Miss.

I don't believe there are any fraternities that are bigger than any sororities at Ole Miss. I know Sigma Nu gave out 60 bids, Sigma Chi 80 bids, Sig Ep about 50 bids, just to name a few. The bigger fraternities probably have around 180members and the smaller ones about 30-40 members. Many sororities are doing joint swaps now with two sororities and two fraternities. Most upperclassmen don't attend swaps/mixers so it's your younger crowd. Even when I was in college it always felt like there were more women than men at mixers and that was when average sorority chapter size was about 175!

[sasquatch]

Notice I didn't say "all girls" or "all the time", because that wouldn't be remotely true. I was just saying that it does happen more than some might think. And I wasn't talking specifically about Ole Miss, but SEC rush in general.