"Evening things out" question

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Originally posted by CarolinaDG
I don't know that AZD's necessarily bad at expanding on larger campusses. I mean, they've been at OSU for a long time, for example. And I think that we've been over and over on GC the point that different GLO's are better for different sized universities depending on a number of different variables. As far as putting a cap on extension, well, size isn't everything. Strength of the GLO is just as important. We pass threads around asking how big everyone is, knowing that this isn't all that matters. It's the same problem that we have on campusses, too. "Well, ABC here is the biggest so they MUST be the best because if XYZ were the best than EVERYONE would want to join it." Then girls get into ABC and find out that the sisterhood isn't as strong, or they are having problems with girls not wanting to participate in anything, etc... Anyway, I think that's my soapbox speech for the day.

This quote is from the thread called "Expansion... Evening things out" on the Greek life board. That thread, plus looking at the sororities on campus for one of my friends who's about to make her final college decision and start thinking about rush, got me thinking.

I was just wondering about something that isn't a problem on my campus. I know on some campus nationally large, powerful GLOs are on campus, as well as smaller GLOs. On my campus, all of the groups would be considered pretty nationally strong (or at least southernly strong), I think. So I have two questions for you that have both nationally big/strong and nationally small/"weak" groups on campus:

1. Do the social reputations of the larger group pair up with their "stronger" national status? Do nationally smaller groups suffer from a "weaker" social reputation?

2. When you went through rush was the national strength a big consideration for you? I know that you have to choose where you truly fit, but the national connections and after-graduation sisterhood possibilites can be a valid consideration, too.