how many girls each house lost

SDA, Are you only capable of thinking one dimensional? Yes, the numbers are factual but there are many, many reasons girls leave a chapter. Let's look at the some of the possible reasons girls drop. As noted in a previous post girls graduate...some semesters have more than others and we can safely assume more graduate in the spring, but on occasion there is a larger than normal group that graduates in the fall. Also, let's acknowledge that EVERY house has drama...some girls get enough and leave. Let's go ahead and also acknowledge that some girls drop; some drop for financial reasons, some drop for personal reasons. Then we have the standards issues...some girls are removed from a chapter and some girls remove themselves because they don't want to live by the rules of the sorority. Now let's go back and talk about the "financial and personal reasons". There are actives who are paying for sorority life themselves and the financial burden is more than they expected and/or more than their enjoyment. There are those whose parents work situation has changed or their marital status has changed and they can no longer assist with the actives finances. There are those girls that have a parent or sibling that is terminally ill and they stay home for a semester or two. There are those actives that are experiencing health problems themselves and they are inactive. Over 50% of UA's students are from out of state and some go home because they are homesick...others lose their scholarship. There are girls that change their majors and need to transfer to a different school. There are girls who didn't get in UA's nursing program and apply elsewhere. These are just a few of the reasons girls leave a chapter. Some girls leave because they don't love their sorority and others leave with tears in their eyes and a huge hole in their heart. You, nor I, will ever know how many girls fit in each of these categories.

So, while the numbers are factual you can't state with certainty why each of these chapters lost the number of actives that they did...it is all conjecture. \n\n\n\n\n

Sounds like you are some cranky alum who is desperate to hold onto the 80s.

The one fact that is not on this thread is how many actives each group is returning with for this academic year. It appears all of the groups have approximately 250 returning which is a strong number.

pnm - Judge for yourself. Check out other pnm at preference. You will know.

sda - Get another hobby. Your (basically) local Alabama sorority will be fine without your posts on gr.

Logic obviously isn't your strong point, is it? Yes, there are lots of reasons for girls to drop out of a sorority. That said, the normal reasons would apply to about the same numbers in each house. Right? All the girls with a terminally ill relative didn't pledge A Phi did they? All the ones with financial and personal reasons didn't pledge A Phi did they?

NO! Girls with legit reasons for dropping out exist in every house.

What's different about the houses that lost a lot of girls?

THEY HAD MORE WHO LEFT BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T LIKE BEING IN THAT HOUSE.

Yes. That's the truth. Some old row houses lose OOS girls beause the majority are local and the OOS girls don't end up fitting in well. Some new row houses lose local girls because they accepted a bid but then decided they were embarrassed not to be in an OR house. It happens. But the reason some houses lost a lot like DZ and Zeta were because girls were unhappy. Same with AXO. A Phi lost a lot because the offered bids to any girl that didn't break a mirror when she looked into it, so they got a lot of grade risks and questionable reputations.

BOTTOM LINE: It matters what order houses are on the main comment. The ones that lost fewer are better liked by the girls in those houses.