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Originally Posted by dnall
Honestly 70-115ish is solid for any greek org. You have enough money to operate at a high level, but you also have few enough people to be close to them & avoid too much cliqueiness as long as you really stay on top of it.
Disclaimer: Seriously, no offense to chapters bigger or smaller than that, I'm just stating an opinion.
Disclaimer2: why are disclaimers necessary?
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Because you use words like "any" in the bolded statement, which risks transforming your opinion of what is good to a generalization so broad as to be meaningless.
You speak from a specific experience: a large NIC fraternity. And you speak with a specific bias: SEC or SEC-like schools. There is nothing wrong with the NIC, the SEC or your experience. But the Greek world is much bigger than the NIC or the SEC, and it's much, much bigger than your experience. Ditto the slice of the Greek world represented on GreekChat.
There are campuses where your "solid" 70-115-person-chapter would be ludicrous. There are people who have no desire to be part of chapters that big. There are fraternities and sororities that would never consider chapters of that size because (and this should strike a chord with you) their experience is that chapters that large hinder their mission. One size doesn't fit all, even when that size is 70-115.
Avoid over-generalizing and speaking as though your fraternity experience defines
the fraternity experience and you can avoid the disclaimers.
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