>> the young women stay overnight on the floor of a classroom where they may one day teach. they will hear from sisters on what to expect as they enter the order an have a private discussion with sister joseph andrew herself. but the whole process is a lot longer than a weekend. if they decide to go on and are accepted, it takes years. first there will be a pos due lent and a novice only after that will they take their final vows. the dominican sisters in ann arbor and a handful like them are bucking the downward trend in american catholicism. since teit's inception they hav grown from 4 founders to 120 sisters with an average age of 30. sister joseph andrew thinks the order's success has a lot to do with the focus on what young people are looking for. >> i meet young people all over the united states and sometimes