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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to Tri Sigs insta, it looks like they only had 3 young women initiated in last year's pledge class. If they are happy being small, then what's the big  deal?[/quote]

Why do you comment on things you know nothing about? I don't even see there you see that on their Insta? My dd rushed in 2022 and she had Tri Sig pref day (but went another house) and they got a full pledge class of 52 - same as all the others except Gphi.  They got a full class last year. She knows several girls there. They are not "happy being small" and no they did not want 3 pledges. If you are on their instagram, you can see that they have alot of girls and it's a chapter that has had a perfeclty fine reputation up until this year and an active social life.

The sorority that used to have these issues is Gamma Phi, who didn't even have enough girls to participate in formal rush this year. That is the one that "no one wants" usually.  Now that Gphi didn't partocipate in rush, Tri Sig fell to that descriptor, which is so unfortunate.[/quote]

Who is smearing Tri Sig and what is even the point of that?  Doesn't that mean that next year, they won't have the numbers to participate in rush and some other house will become the "no one wants" house, and so on?[/quote]

Yes, and I think this is really illustrative of the diminishing appeal of sororities. If low-key, less-status-y sororities can't find a group of like-minded low-key women to continue their existence, only those who care about the more exclusive houses will participate. Then those groups will continue to eat their own until only the houses who can sustain themselves entirely on multi-generational legacies alone survive. [/quote]

Np. Sororities are having something of a resurgence though. Yes there was diminishing appeal maybe 5 years ago.

But in recent years, teens, and even tweens know about sororities way earlier than any of us ever did. I think you don’t actually have a firm handle or grasp on social dynamics amongst women in the 16-24 year old range.

Weirdly (or not) sororities have the same really strong resurgent appeal that Taylor Swift does. I don’t see it dying out anytime soon even if you wish it would….[/quote]

If that's the case, why can't every house fill a pledge class, then? It's obviously not about the appeal of sororities in general or as a concept - it's the vibe of exclusiveness.[/quote]

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