how many girls each house lost

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This need to stay front page news because it is the only objective info out there. Facts are facts. Girls need to see which houses has Em dropping like flies and stay away because that is an indicator of an unhealthy house.

I wonder why this thread keeps getting bumped. Obviously a bias.

So Alpha Phi for instance. Is returning to recruitment with approximately 200+ members. This is plenty fill the house and do all activities. On most campuses this would be a thriving number.

So Alpha Phi is returning will all the members who pay on time, active in the chapter, get the better grades, the most devoted and committed among them. How is this a bad thing? In reality this group appears to be returning for this academic year with their strongest members.

pnm - Judge for yourself during recruitment.

At many other campuses, a 200 member house would be great, but our new houses are built to support 400+ member chapters and, unfortunately, our large houses have large house payments. Aphi and the three other houses that lost a lot of members will be under a lot of pressure to take giant pledge classes in order to keep dues the same. If not successful in this, then already high dues will have to go up or the social calendar will have to be cut. So PNMs have two things to worry about when considering the four houses that lost a lot of members 1)How much will these houses compromise their membetship standards in order to get the big pledge classes they need to comfortably afford their houses (making fellow Pref attendees really important to consider) and 2) If not successful in getting the pledges they need, how will that impact dues and social life? Those two unknowns alone might scare off the very PNMs they really need. Not much of a win either way.

Houses are not supported by just those who live in the house. Everyones dues contains a facility payment piece that goes toward paying for the house. Those that live in the house just pay more. Yes there are flexible expenses like meals, and to a degree housekeeping and kitchen staffing can be cut, but there are also large fixed costs that are spread over the whole membership. If those costs are spread over less girls, each will have to pay more.

Look at house cost data - or is almost reverse in there of cost versus these retention numbers.

Plus something doesn’t add.

Each house gets about 135 new pnms in recruitment.

If everyone “stayed” four years houses would be 540 members. Yet house run about 400 actives.

Just not sure how this is accounted for in these numbers. \n\n\n\n\n

also have to take into account that chapters with more out of state girls have a higher number of transfers due to people who are just homesick/ didn't realize what a out of state college experience would be like

No sure about how the four houses with drops calculate dues. In our house, we can only charge dues to cover budgeted expenses for the year and are not allowed to charge our membership more than this or carry large reserve accounts. If we have excess funding at the end of the year we have to send to national. In our house, dues has to go up per person if we have fewer members.

Just looking at how many members each house "lost" is not all you need to know because some chapters are much larger than others. These are the numbers from the fall 2017 grade report

Largest Houses
Chi O-489
ADPi-482
APhi-482

Smallest Houses
DZ-348
DDD-434
ZTA-435

So yes the three LARGEST houses and two of the smallest lost the most members. APhi lost 43% but ADPi only lost 19%, and DZ lost 21%. So while it may look like ADPi lost more girls they actually lost less than DZ as a percentage of their members. They still have more members than ZTA with the losses too, ZTA would have 373 and ADPi with 390.

Man I bet those 489 girls are tight!

Same with the 348!!!!

This all seems much about nothing.

All large and stable.