sigma kappa

Don't be surprised if the number is in the 50-75 range.
Their national is not going to be looking for huge numbers but finding a core group that will work together to develop the chapter. Lessons learned from the last time SK colonized at Bama, they chose quantity and had severe teamwork and sisterhood issues resulting in their collapse.

This girl in my class told me that she’s going through rush at SK and they told her they “want to have enough numbers to be competitive with the other houses” verbatim

They sent out pref invites and I’m Pretty sure if you got a pref invite you’re gonna get a bid. That’s how most colonizing chapters all over have been doing it. A colonizing chapter will do a preference ceremony and surprise you get a bid too.
Can’t be 100% sure that’s what SK is gonna do here but that’s been a big trend lately in colonizing chapters at big colonizations. Sorry if that gets anyone’s hopes up but that should give you an idea of how many girls they may take?? Maybe? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Colonizing sororities generally want to take close to the average chapter size, but that doesn't mean they won't take everybody. They are still selective.They will need to be big enough to handle the 2019 primary recruitment.
Just a guess, 250 to 300.
They will probably have a fair size new member class via spring COB. I certainly wish them the best! Strong chapters mean a stronge Greek system.

Now...wonder when they will initiate?

They are being selective about who they choose. I know girls that didn’t get invited back for the pref round and they are nice girls who are really involved and I also know girls that got invited with really low gpa so I don’t know how they are picking their girls. I do know they wanted to have around 300 girls and about 1,000 had visits.

Having colonized a chapter myself, colonies definitely don't take everyone. Just like with any established chapter, there are gpa requirements, letters of rec, legacies, and leaders on campus to consider. They're going to be looking to take a spread across the classes so they have girls slated for exec and freshmen to sustain the chapter/invite their unaffiliated friends (as all chapters who COB do). Usually sororities look to bid up to chapter total, but that's a lot easier to do at schools where total is ~120 as opposed to 400. Their goal will likely (again all of us are speculating because none of us are SK) try to bid enough to fill out formal recruitment and almost definitely will take a spring PC. Keep in mind they'll also have to offer up members next fall for recruitment counselors.

So does anyone know approximately how many girls were invited to the pref rounds? And will there still be cuts before bid day?

their pc looked huge. 250 girls maybe.

I went to pref round for SK, but did not get a bid. Kind of confused to be honest because everyone was saying pref guaranteed bid. Plus, I had a pretty high gpa and did a lot of philanthropy in high school soooo that email was a little been of shock.

ya it really thinks because i heard they made more cuts during normal rush so sk could get more members. when i got dropped at first i had little to no desire to try for sk but they made it seem like the perfect option. i have a small hope of cob because I really don't want to have through rush again, but still would like to take part.