houses ranked by membership size

Sisterhood absolutely plays a part in retention. However it’s also important to remember that houses with high in state numbers will naturally have bigger membership and vice versa. Local girls have a lot of societal pressure to get bids to and become alums of certain houses and are more likely to actually stay at UA. Unfortunately many OOS girls decide Alabama isn’t for them, and the ones who stay don’t have as much pressure to be a member for all 4 years.

So yes, not really subjective, but there are also a lot of factors at play.

The more oos girls in a house the more girls that find they can't afford to stay here, can't stand to leave their boyfriend, etc. and move back oos. Instate girls stay because they already know those things. So you are confusing causation and correlation.

Your list is meaningless without showing the rise and fall of numbers between semesters. Not every chapter chooses to pledge up to the maximum so a snapshot of total doesn't mean anything. If you know anything about membership you would know that.

99 percent of all statistics only tell 49 percent of the story.

Is there a drop report? All I’ve ever seen is the grade report. Don’t some girls graduate after fall semester? How many on average? 20 + or - a few? Do all sororities let you drop at the semester? (I’ve heard that there are some that won’t let you drop until the end of spring.) Also, with houses having 400+ members, I would expect 5% not to be happy at the school, have a change in their financial situation, or be unhappy with the house. (Unhappy with their house means to me that they have a personal sisterhood issue, don’t like all the rules, etc.) 5% of 400 is 20, so 40 + or - a few would be normal? It looks to me like everyone is falling in the normal range.

Everyone bids to quota, so this absolutely shows retention rates.

Some higher ranked houses must be on here constamtly try to justify their falling numbers. I will point out, some have had bad numbers for a couple of years, yet are still ranked high. PNMs, anyone can throw out a ranking, alumna, mamas, and sliding houses desperately want you to believe their false story.

The bottom four houses have around 80 less members than top houses. This is the true cost of making bottom house members feel bad about belonging to their house. These houses cost al lot of money, then to have others constantly make them feel bad anout belinging.... no wonder they drop out. All houses are fantastic here!

Would not have expected DG to have nearly 30 more members than other New Row houses and DDD to have that many less members than the other Old Row ones. Good on APhi too for starting to work their retention rates and getting closer in size to the other houses!