alpha phi

Looks like they did remarkably well! Congrats to all the new founding members. What an amazing opportunity!

Momma marge don't lecture others on crowing about themselves when that is all this site is. The top tier constantly crows about how great they are and perpetuates the ancient tiers. The so-called lower tier crows about being great and then gets annihilated by comments as to why they aren't. This whole site is a bunch of evil black crows trying to peck each others eyes out to get one crumb.

There new members don't look any different than any other bottom tier house.

Same same same.

These have to be very special, strong women with tons of integrity to have withstood all the hate that has been spewed. And if you've seen the photo there is absolutely no denying they got a beautiful classy looking group of girls! They look NOTHING like what all the haters said they would look like! Good Job Alpha Phi! Welcome to Ole Miss! You make us proud!

This from the same group of women who spewed so much hate towards the tri delts just a few weeks ago.

I guess that makes our top tier every bit as strong, special, and filled with integrity

Blaming another house for the hate with no basis or fact shows zero integrity.

Alpha Phi did not hate on Tri Delt, the groups are friendly with each other.

They look like every other house - cute happy girls! Just stop it with the tier crap all the time.

Doesn't look like they have many members. Shouldn't they have started with about the same number in the other sororities?

That's not how it works with colonization, their numbers are awesome for a colony!

Yes very successful when you have only 1/3 of what other sororities have. Good luck with that!

I heard they just handed out bids to everyone who came to preference. Weird.

Ok figure out what you're complaining about either 1) they don't have enough girls or 2) they handed out too many bids. You're pathetic. Colonies never take a full sororities worth of girls, would you be able to handle a pledge class of 500 hundred girls? It's the same thing. They had a number they determined would work best for their success. This shouldn't really have required an explanation you must be a GDI.

Did Alpha Phi end up not wanting to take as many as they were planning on originally? I'm just curious because I went to the interest meeting for Alpha Phi before formal recruitment(but got into a house in formal recruitment) and they said they were planning to take 250-300 girls and I could be off but that didn't look to be that many in the photo they posted. I'm not hating or anything just curious if anyone knew!

You are not imagining that. My roommate went to the meeting too but decided not to go through their recruitment. It confuses me because they only look like they have maybe 150 in that photo and they were saying they were looking for twice that. This seems a little strange.

APhi's colony is sooooo much better looking than ADPi's was though.

I went to the interest meeting because it was before formal recruitment and they said they were planning to take 250-300 but the photo didn't look like that many at all.

Good, quality over quantity

they had trouble recruiting enough members. Looks like they already are in trouble.

I looked on their FB and a video they produced. I don't see where they state their goal was 250-300 new members? On the video, they clearly do not state a specific number. Where is the 250 to 300 documented since I could not find a specific number and must have missed?

contacted Alpha Phi about rushing. They could have taken many, many more than they did.

They were very selective in recruiting their founding class.

You haters can spin it any way you want but Alpha Phi is now on Ole Miss to stay despite your program to stop them.

Alpha Phi is one of the best national sororities and belongs at Ole Miss. And that's a fact.

"Contacting" and following through or wanting a bid are completely different things. My roommate went to their first meeting and she and her friend decided Alpha Phi wasn't for them. So people like that are counted as "contacted." Alpha Phi took half the number they said they wanted. That spells trouble to anyone looking at it objectively. But just keep on with the damage control. We have eyes and see how poorly things went.

I still can't find where they said their goal number was 250-300. I clearly am missing this documented number? Please show me where they stated this is the number they planned on recruiting? There were earlier posts about girls getting cut? Do we know how many signed up and were then cut? It sounds like they were being very selective over volume? And yes, maybe not a good fit for every girl who did not participate in and/or did not get a bid during formal rush. But, would guess these girls might not be a fit with some of the established houses either.

for some reason you want to spin all things Alpha Phi into a negative.

No matter what stories you post here about supposed friends, roommates, friends of friends, people down the hall, etc. - the fact remains that Alpha Phi could have bid many, many more women - and everyone knows it.

It is just astonishing how bashing continues and continues. Isn't a strong Greek system something that benefits all Greeks? No sure what the motivation is to constantly degrade other groups......seems very bizarre.......

They stated 250 - 300 in their first meeting. That is a completely normal amount for a colony; getting as close to the size of the current sororities as possible. They got about half of what they wanted. It's going to be very hard for them to get any kind of traction with such numbers. This is fact.

No - that is not what APhi does. Alpha Phi colonizes to obtain a core group. They are the founding members and have a unique skill set. They are pioneers and leaders. The Alpha Phis colonizing at Ole Miss made the decisions to cut, and to offer bids.

In spite of all of the negativity on this site Alpha Phi colonized at Ole Miss.

So your negative words and wishes have amounted to nothing.

Keep it up. You are generating a lot of sympathy for Alpha Phi.

No it isn't "what they do." Bama, LSU, FSU .... all recent comparable school colonizations where they gave bids up to average chapter size. Something is definitely fishy here when they only have 1/3 of what they should and said they were going to to the PNMs at their initial meeting. People may be feeling sorry for Alpha Phi, but it's not for the reasons you're saying. LOL

Since you are an expert on Alpha Phi colonization numbers how about you support your above statement with facts. Please give the founding class size and total allowed chapter size at that time for each campus that you mentioned above to support your allegation.

Are you sure you're in college? Since when is 150/300 one third ??

Well that was easy to find. You're not going to like it though.

2009 Alabama 218 (total at the time was 180)
2010 FSU 145 (total at the time was 160)
2013 LSU 200 (total at the time was 209)

So yeah seems something strange is happening here that they took so few members.

your house totals are off.

What are the sources for your info? Please post here with a truncated link so people can review for themselves. Thanks!

Does anyone know the actual number of girls in the class? Cuzzzzz from what the pics of their colony vs ADPi's colony pics, they look pretty equal...?

^ You've gotta look at the bid day group pic not the pref night pic.

Those totals look to be correct. Many old totals are on the Greek chat web site and there are multiple old grade reports online that can be averaged to extrapolate the average chapter size at those times. So yeah Alpha Phi took around total at those schools and only took half at Ole Miss. Not judging, just stating a fact. I have no idea why.

Like I thought. You stated something as fact when, in truth, you extrapolated numbers without any supportive links.

For instance - your numbers fail at the first glance. Panhel at Alabama did not let Alpha Phi take 38 more new members than campus total. Your figure for campus total is wrong.

From your post above:

"2009 Alabama 218 (total at the time was 180)"

Just give it up. At least you should check your lies for reasonableness before posting them.

The Alpha Phi reps at Ole Miss made cuts and offered bids based on their best judgment. They could have easily bid more women.

The new member class is really great and is already - tonight - participating with Phi Mu in their philanthropy event.