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<strong>Subject:</strong><br />Why Member # Count Matters<br /><br /> Poster Message:
Membership count info is very important. The chapters with a lower membership count have to ask back more people at the end of each recruitment day because they will have more membership slots to fill at the end of recruitment. There has been a question about chapter retention rates and the member count at the end of Spring is all you need to calculate that. To calculate the retention rate, divide the total number of members who stayed with the sorority through a given time period by the headcount you started with on day one. Then, multiply that number by 100. All sororities offer enough bids during Fall Recruitment to start the year at the same number. I believe the Panellenic chapter total after 2023 Fall Recruitment was 154. So if all sororities started the 2023 academic year with 154 members and one chapter, prior to Spring graduation, ended the year with just 132 members, their retention rate would be only 85%, far lower than the average retention rate of 93-95%. Also a factor to note is Spring Recruitment. Some chapters started the academic year with that 154 total member count and did not recruit in the spring while others did- which would refill them back to the 154. Since Spring Recruitment is optional the number of women “picked up” during Spring is not available, only the total membership for each chapter after Spring Recruitment occurred is available. This means some chapters made it through the entire academic year only losing a handful of women (note: every single house will have a small loss of members due to December graduation) while others lost significant membership during the Fall, forcing them to pick up members to try to get back closer to the starting number during Spring Recruitment. Then, as it also may have lost significant membership in the Spring. The bottom line is that this is great information to have and you can draw conclusions about the stability of a chapter and the health of their sisterhood, but ultimately how you feel when you walk into a chapter is what matters.