Alabama Recruitment 2016

[magnoliacurious]

Originally Posted by jolene

Holy cow. Any plans on expansion? Aren't the sororities already nearing 400 members?

All but three of the sororities participating in recruitment either already are 400 members or above or are fifteen members or less away from there according to the greek fall 2015 grade report.

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by magnoliacurious

All but three of the sororities participating in recruitment either already are 400 members or above or are fifteen members or less away from there according to the greek fall 2015 grade report.

Updated information (always good to be current, right?): the spring 2016 grade report shows different numbers than what you reported for the Fall 2015 semester. I'm sure we all know reasons/explanations for this!

Regardless, these are huge chapters.

[magnoliacurious]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

Updated information (always good to be current, right?): the spring 2016 grade report shows different numbers than what you reported for the Fall 2015 semester. I'm sure we all know reasons/explanations for this!

Regardless, these are huge chapters.

Hope I'm not going down a rabbit hole here, yeah those are the most current numbers, but similar to many schools reporting their high point of enrollment which is the fall semester as their "enrollment" and not even bothering to mention their lower number spring enrollment, I thought the most recent high point of membership for GLO's would be what most people would most want to know. To me, only for schools like Miami University of Ohio that have their recruitment in the spring semester and thus have the higher number of members then would the spring membership figure be the one you'd be most interested in. But I guess everybody's different! But like you said, we can all agree that Alabama has huge Panhellenic sorority chapters!

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by magnoliacurious

Hope I'm not going down a rabbit hole here, yeah those are the most current numbers, but similar to many schools reporting their high point of enrollment which is the fall semester as their "enrollment" and not even bothering to mention their lower number spring enrollment, I thought the most recent high point of membership for GLO's would be what most people would most want to know. To me, only for schools like Miami University of Ohio that have their recruitment in the spring semester and thus have the higher number of members then would the spring membership figure be the one you'd be most interested in. But I guess everybody's different! But like you said, we can all agree that Alabama has huge Panhellenic sorority chapters!

It seems most fair and accurate to report the recent and current numbers, rather than selecting what you (or anyone else for that matter) determine to be "what most people would most want to know." If people are that interested in NPC enrollment, as reported to the Greek Life Office, they'll go to the Alabama web page and then do the research (like I did!).

What the chapters are starting with in August 2016 in terms of numbers is what I'd be interested to see. And there is no way to get that information at this time (at least not from my searches).

Back to the thread :-)

[AnchorAlumna]

Well, just for fun...figure roughly an average of 80 members each graduating/leaving after spring.
Then take 2800 PNMs (less 84 that won't show up at Convocation tomorrow evening), divide by16 (ADX is not an NPC group and SDT does a separate recruitment) - 175. But some will be released altogether, some with take themselves out....figure 150 NM classes.
I'd say a majority will be at or over or very very close to 400 by next Saturday afternoon.

Expansion is having to wait until all the sorority house construction is completed. Not Alabama's choice - there's just no place for a new group until all the houses are replaced.
Phi Mu and Kappa Kappa Gamma are in new houses this week...Pi Beta Phi is under construction...I think Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Omicron Pi are the only ones left now. So maybe we'll see another group come on campus in 2017 or 2018.

[jolene]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Well, just for fun...figure roughly an average of 80 members each graduating/leaving after spring.
Then take 2800 PNMs (less 84 that won't show up at Convocation tomorrow evening), divide by16 (ADX is not an NPC group and SDT does a separate recruitment) - 175. But some will be released altogether, some with take themselves out....figure 150 NM classes.
I'd say a majority will be at or over or very very close to 400 by next Saturday afternoon.

Expansion is having to wait until all the sorority house construction is completed. Not Alabama's choice - there's just no place for a new group until all the houses are replaced.
Phi Mu and Kappa Kappa Gamma are in new houses this week...Pi Beta Phi is under construction...I think Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Omicron Pi are the only ones left now. So maybe we'll see another group come on campus in 2017 or 2018.

I thought Theta's house was relatively new. My niece lived in it and I could swear it was only a couple of years old at that point.

[LXA SE285]

Originally Posted by jolene

I thought Theta's house was relatively new. My niece lived in it and I could swear it was only a couple of years old at that point.

If I'm not mistaken, the Theta house was built in the mid-'70s. I think they did a pretty substantial renovation a couple of years ago, though.

[magnoliacurious]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

It seems most fair and accurate to report the recent and current numbers, rather than selecting what you (or anyone else for that matter) determine to be "what most people would most want to know." If people are that interested in NPC enrollment, as reported to the Greek Life Office, they'll go to the Alabama web page and then do the research (like I did!).

What the chapters are starting with in August 2016 in terms of numbers is what I'd be interested to see. And there is no way to get that information at this time (at least not from my searches).

Back to the thread :-)

Okay, fine, as I said, everybody's different. I was just trying to give a quick, easy answer to the OP, and thought what I gave would stand out the most. And I guess I looked at being that interested in NPC enrollment across semesters and doing the research the opposite way. Again, just my opinion.

Anyway, I hope AnchorAlumna's answer helped you out a lot. She knows a ton more about this stuff than I could ever hope to know!