What can be done to help smaller GLO's?

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I'm sure time has something to do with it, but then again Chi O is pretty young and is very, very strong. (And if we're looking at age, I'd look at the date it went national, not when it was founded - if a group stayed local for 50 years that doesn't help it much come expansion time.)

For several groups, I think I know why they're smaller, and it has nothing to do with their intrinsic worthiness:
-The AES sororities lost a lot of members when they joined NPC
-Theta Phi Alpha was limited to Catholic women for many years; SDT and AEPhi to Jewish women. By the time they became open they had catching up to do in terms of expansion.

Other groups, who knows. For example, AXD and Phi Sig have about the same number of chapters. AXD has done better in regards to spreading around the country, and why, who knows? But then again AXD is still relatively small, so why is that?

I think strength has something to do with how carefully groups expanded in the past. Did they overextend themselves? Did they have a plan for starting chapters all over the country?

For example, I look at AXD (I know it best after all), and many of our dormant chapters - esp. the Alpha XXX chapters - are at the kind of big schools that draw in the numbers. What happened that those chapters ended up not working out for us?

I do think there is one factor here, and it just occurred to me, so I haven't rigorously tested it. Sororities are biggest and most competitive in the South. Think of the sororities that you know are strongest, biggest, most respected, and they're all successful in the South. Again, look at AXD - yes, we have southern chapters, but they're not our oldest, and we didn't even merit a mention in "The Southern Belle Primer." For some reason, the south sets sorority fashion.

OK, that's one theory. Feel free to debunk it!