Best or average time to get a lil??? - Page 3

KSUViolet06 · #1 10-18-2004, 01:07 PM

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Originally posted by Detla Tri am I
Maybe we do things a little differently, but we let the littles choose the big sister, so it doen't matter when you were initiated. Some sisters end up with a lot of littles ( I had 3) and others don't get any. We want the NM's to be comfortable with their big sister.

That's how it is in my chapter also.

Wine&SilverBlue · #2 10-18-2004, 03:56 PM

My school only has spring rush, so usually you will get initiated in the spring and take a pledge daughter the next spring, if you want one. Since there were 10 sophs in my pledge class last year and a lot of us wanted juniors as our pledge moms, some juniors took a second daughter. However, in my chapter most people only have one pledge daughter.

We had "heart sisters" which were like temporary "bigs" or "pledge moms" each week starting on bid day and going until pledge mom week. Then each pledge ranks her top 5 choices for pledge mom and each potential pledge mom/big ranks her top choices somehow..

I can't wait to take a pledge baby.. or 2 (if i take twins!)

Optimist Prime · #3 10-18-2004, 04:00 PM

Depends on the lil. Tghere should be about a year difference. However, I kind of got screwed otu of two littles, so I was a seinor by the time I got him, he is cool though even if like 4 years younger thabn me.

PhoenixAzul · #4 10-18-2004, 04:55 PM

Ours will depend a lot on our rush numbers. If we have a pledge class of 10, then we have to go with senority and your positions in the sorority (ie president is more apt to take alittle than someone with no positions). HOWEVER, if you KNOW you're going to have time commitments, then you SHOULDN'T take a little. I know we have a few nursing students that have clinicals and won't be able to make pledging events, so they more than likely won't take one or will take one with another sister with a busy schedule. Pledge mistress and asst. pledge mistress usually don't take littles but they can. Since we only have rush once a year, it's our only chance to grow our trees.

ADqtPiMel · #5 10-18-2004, 05:06 PM

Since I'm at a campus with deferred rush and my chapter doesn't do COB, we only have one New Member class each year, in January. Everyone gets only one Diamond sister for their duration in ADPi. So the girls that were initiated last February will be the ones to take Diamonds this January. If someone is abroad, they can wait another year as well. Also, if your Diamond leaves the chapter, you are permitted to take another.

TigerLilly · #6 10-18-2004, 05:21 PM

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Originally posted by ADqtPiMel
Since I'm at a campus with deferred rush and my chapter doesn't do COB, we only have one New Member class each year, in January. Everyone gets only one Diamond sister for their duration in ADPi. So the girls that were initiated last February will be the ones to take Diamonds this January. If someone is abroad, they can wait another year as well. Also, if your Diamond leaves the chapter, you are permitted to take another.

I'm confused: so does this mean you only take as many new members as however big your pledge class was from the year before? What about chapter growth?

ADqtPiMel · #7 10-18-2004, 05:27 PM

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Originally posted by TigerLilly
I'm confused: so does this mean you only take as many new members as however big your pledge class was from the year before? What about chapter growth?

Well, we take quota every year, and quota is usually approximately the same every year so the numbers tend to match up. We can't really grow any bigger than taking quota each year.

Example: Quota for the class above me was 55. My class quota was 56. Every girl in the class above me took a Diamond, and one girl got to take twins. (There's always one or two people who take twins- sorry if that wasn't clear in the last post.)

PhoenixAzul · #8 10-18-2004, 06:44 PM

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Originally posted by TigerLilly
I'm confused: so does this mean you only take as many new members as however big your pledge class was from the year before? What about chapter growth?

Yep. That's how mine is. We never make quota. If we took quota, we'd have more NM than actives. Chapter growth isn't everything. We kinda like being small.

TigerLilly · #9 10-18-2004, 08:03 PM

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Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
Yep. That's how mine is. We never make quota. If we took quota, we'd have more NM than actives. Chapter growth isn't everything. We kinda like being small.

Nah, I totally agree that chapter growth isn't everything. I wasn't advocating/bashing growth, just questioning how it worked.

ADqtPiMel, the scenario I was envisioning was like what you mentioned: maybe quota was 55 one year and 56 the next, but mabye you also had 1 girl drop from the pledge process the year before, or maybe one of those 55 was on study abroad that year. Then you'd have 54 girls able to take littles, but a quota of 56. I was envisioning the chapter purposefully not taking quota, because you could only have 54 littles b/c of only having 54 potential bigs.

You mentioning the twin situation cleared that up!

g41965 · #10 10-18-2004, 09:18 PM

BOY WHAT A MISLEADING TITLE FOR A THREAD !

PhoenixAzul · #11 10-18-2004, 09:21 PM

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Originally posted by TigerLilly
Nah, I totally agree that chapter growth isn't everything. I wasn't advocating/bashing growth, just questioning how it worked.

ADqtPiMel, the scenario I was envisioning was like what you mentioned: maybe quota was 55 one year and 56 the next, but mabye you also had 1 girl drop from the pledge process the year before, or maybe one of those 55 was on study abroad that year. Then you'd have 54 girls able to take littles, but a quota of 56. I was envisioning the chapter purposefully not taking quota, because you could only have 54 littles b/c of only having 54 potential bigs.

You mentioning the twin situation cleared that up!

oi, the poor pledge who has to make that family tree!! Hehe, that's why ours are so complicated. We were refounded in 1988 by 5 sisters, so we all go back to one of 5 trees. But in our forming years, we had both a spring and a winter class, sometimes with people sharing littles, so they branch off into two different trees. It's frustrating!! I'm related to 99 percent of my pledge class, but there's one girl who is in a tree that doesn't fork!!

ADqtPiMel · #12 10-18-2004, 09:28 PM

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Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
oi, the poor pledge who has to make that family tree!! Hehe, that's why ours are so complicated. We were refounded in 1988 by 5 sisters, so we all go back to one of 5 trees. But in our forming years, we had both a spring and a winter class, sometimes with people sharing littles, so they branch off into two different trees. It's frustrating!! I'm related to 99 percent of my pledge class, but there's one girl who is in a tree that doesn't fork!!

We don't do family trees. The only recognized relationship is between Diamond sisters.

And we wouldn't make our New Members make family trees anyway.

PhoenixAzul · #13 10-18-2004, 09:38 PM

It's pretty cool, because the alumni come back and you say things like..."YOU'RE MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GRAND BIG!". I just met my grand big this summer, and she's so cool! We've had three generations of art students in my tree (grand big was an art major, my big is a music major, and i'm an art major). One of my pledge sisters is in a tree of presidents...almost every girl in her immediate "family" has been president of our chapter at one point and time. All chapters at Otterbein keep family trees back to their founding/refounding members, it's just a way to keep track of who did what. When you have a national, it's hard to do.

TigerLilly · #14 10-18-2004, 10:06 PM

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Originally posted by PhoenixAzul
(snip)All chapters at Otterbein keep family trees back to their founding/refounding members, it's just a way to keep track of who did what. When you have a national, it's hard to do.

How is that harder when you have a national? I don't understand. We track them in Phi Sigma Pi -- our chapter is only 5 years old, so I know my big (duh!), grandbig, great-grandbig, and then my great-great-grandbig was someone in Alpha Class who I've never met.

Oh, and to stay semi-on-topic, the average time to get a little for my chapter of PSP is a semester or two. We have a pledge class each semester, and a lot of times the most recently initiated brothers are the ones who really want littles the next semester. People get them even up to their senior years, and it's not uncommon for an active brother to have had 2 or 3 littles by the time he/she graduates.

PhoenixAzul · #15 10-18-2004, 10:23 PM

I highly doubt if my brother could trace his trees. Do you trace back to your chapter founding? or your national founding? Plus with the addition of COB's and spring pledging...I think I'd go nuts! Heaven forbid if we ever take a spring class, that would mean almost 18 weeks out of the year spent on pledging for us.