Kappa Gamma Delta?

[AchtungBaby80]

Originally posted by TKE209Sweethrt
See...this sucks..I want a big name sorority to come in..however..I don't believe they'd be interested in teeny-weeny school like this....or a long shot like us..

Doesn't hurt to try, right? My sorority has chapter at schools I've never even heard of, and I know the other NPC groups must have, too.

[texas*princess]

If the school is very open for expansion, maybe the advisor should send notice to NPC, so all NPC sororities will have notice and be aware of the expansion opportunity!

(I realize that there are two groups you are trying to avoid because the other locals used to be them)

I definately agree with AchtungBaby that it doesn't hurt to try to get a "big name" sorority on your campus to colonize you, but like they say to everyone going through recruitment -- keep an open mind! There are 24 amazing groups, and each one, no matter how big or small, is something special! So in the end it isn't about being part of a "big name" sorority, but what the sorority itself means to you and your sisters

Continued best wishes to you & your sisters!

[DolphinChicaDDD]

As long as your greek advisor is behind you, and you are close/can be at school everyday, you could probably start contacting the NPC as soon as you want to. The process takes awhile, and your local college panhellenic has to grant you the right to expand(this became a HUGE sticking point on my campus).

Once the local panhel grants the right to expand, letters of notice to expand go out, surveys by national get filled out, nationals get picked for the next round, presentations get made, i think i'm skipping a few steps, and then the sorority gets chosen. It usually takes about a semester, but since we did most of the work over winterbreak- we got voted on before thanksgiving, and then by the martin luther king jr day, we were on campus.

Just think what are the most important aspects of your *local* sisterhood, and stick to those; make sure that your national is willing to work with your group. our biggest point was we wanted to keep our local history, and our local traditions...and tri delta seemed to be one of the only ones willing to work with us-they were the only national that knew our local's name, and used it often. this impressed us (turns out there was a reason for this- if your a tri delt, you know what i mean )


Basic Idea: Stick to your guns...make sure you have ALOT of time devoted to this...become best friends with your greek advisor...and GOOD LUCK!!!!!

[SmartBlondeGPhB]

Originally posted by AchtungBaby80
Doesn't hurt to try, right? My sorority has chapter at schools I've never even heard of, and I know the other NPC groups must have, too.

I'd have to agree.......

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by TKE209Sweethrt
Funny thing, all my girls are on campus this summer...well..at least the main ones..which totals to a big ole "7"!

See...this sucks..I want a big name sorority to come in..however..I don't believe they'd be interested in teeny-weeny school like this....or a long shot like us..

I think a teeny school isn't a problem- how many of you had honestly heard of Wisconsin - Platteville before I came on here? I think the bigger issue a NPC group would have is your size. I'm not what the requirements are, but I believe most sororities have a minimum size to charter, do they not? I know when we chartered back in the day, we had to have at least 30 girls. I have no idea what the current numbers are, but that might be something to look at.

[phisigduchesscv]

I think some of the issues with size of the colonizing group will be the size of the campus and how many are greek, etc. I know our campus has 13,000 plus students but we aren't not a hugh greek campus so we only needed 30 sisters to colonize. Now at Syracuse the Pi chapter rechartered with close to 100 members. Other campus with smaller numbers of students may not need to have so many members to colonize.

Even if it is summer, you might want to contact a couple of groups that you're interested in to see if they would be willing to come out and check out the campus. You have at least two groups that have chapters closed there and they may be interested in trying to recolonize so I would say definitely contact them to see what they think. While they're checking out the campus all of you can work on recruiting more members, especially if you have summer session going on right now.

[aephi alum]

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
I think a teeny school isn't a problem- how many of you had honestly heard of Wisconsin - Platteville before I came on here? I think the bigger issue a NPC group would have is your size. I'm not what the requirements are, but I believe most sororities have a minimum size to charter, do they not? I know when we chartered back in the day, we had to have at least 30 girls. I have no idea what the current numbers are, but that might be something to look at.

Small size may not be all that big of a problem. My local became a colony of AEPhi with 10 members. We were told we had to get up to 25 before being chartered, but we took in 12 new members and were chartered at 22.

With a small size, you may be a colony for a while, but I doubt national sororities would dismiss you out of hand.

[AchtungBaby80]

Originally posted by phisigduchesscv
I think some of the issues with size of the colonizing group will be the size of the campus and how many are greek, etc.

You're right. My colony had to have about 90, I think, to get our charter, but that is a competitive size for a sorority on the campus I was on. Other campuses are smaller and the size of each group is much less, so not as many members would be required. If 100 members were always required for chartering, nobody would have chapters at smaller schools.

[Sverige]

Originally posted by AchtungBaby80
the campus I was on.

I take it you're no longer in school?

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

Oh, please check my "Rio Life Part 2" in Chapter Operations for updates, 'cause damn, I've got some!

Pss: On the school size deal...I think we have less than 3,000 student...it's a pretty small school guys

[DWAlphaGam]

Originally posted by TKE209Sweethrt
Pss: On the school size deal...I think we have less than 3,000 student...it's a pretty small school guys

My school has less than 3,000 students and we have 6 national sororities (no locals at all, though). HQ's will most likely look at each campus and each expansion situation individually instead of always going for the big-name, large universities. Just continue working on your sisterhood and things will work out.


BTW, I like the name, too!

[pinkyphimu]

well, my college had 1200- 1500 students (when i started - when i graduated...now it is closer to 2000) and we have 4 NPC groups! the size of campus may not be as big of a deal as you might think. there maybe a group or two who are not interested in colonizing on a campus of that size right now because they may have their resources elsewhere. once NPC is contated, you will at least have a list of groups that are interested in expanding. you can't start eliminating if you don't know your choices!

[AchtungBaby80]

Originally posted by Sverige
I take it you're no longer in school?

No, sir, I just graduated this Spring! Notice the little "alumna" after the DZ in my signature.

[33girl]

Size of the school is less important than percentage of Greek involvement (i.e, my school is twice the size of DW AlphaGam's and hers probably has 3 times as many Greeks). There are other factors too.

[LucyKKG]

Ok, I know I'm gonna get some crap for this because it's such an old thread, but hey, I didn't bump it!
I don't understand how people can encourage someone to take a name that's already in use even if it's not close to their school. Yeah, it isn't that likely that they'll meet another KGD or whatever, but I'd rather pick a new name that sounds like an NPC, NIC, etc than have the exact same name as someone else. I know someone posted here how many Greek letter combinations you could make. Yeah, they aren't all pretty sounding but...still!
Maybe I'm just sensitive cause we have a Kappa Gamma Delta chapter here (the pre-med sorority).