From colony to getting chartered - what happens if a sorority won't get chartered?

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by Greek_or_Geek?

Well they could have something to do with each other if they are required to have a certain number of members to charter and wish to focus on attracting Jewish members. If they are failing to reach that demographic, not communicating an attractive enough proposition to that demographic or even if there's been a miscalculation of the school's Jewish population or interest in a sorority, yes they would be related. All of those would be reasons a chapter might close before chartering but still have initiated members. Of course this is theoretical and not specific to the OP's chapter or the AEPhi colony mentioned later in the thread.

Not so much.

While AEPhi chapters tend to attract Jewish women, we have never restricted membership based on religion. So a colony wouldn't remain small because the Jewish female population is small and/or uninterested.

The fact that we initiate new members of colonies really has nothing to do with the fact that AEPhi was founded by Jewish women and tends to attract Jewish women.