at my daughters chapter, each sister makes an infomation page about herself , including hometown,major, photos, family info.(real and greek family) interesting facts about them, etc. they give this to the new member trainer who makes copies and inserts them in a notebook-one for each new member.

the new members are not quizzed on this information, but it does help the new members get to know the older girls.

We had a list kind of like that too - just name, home & school address, age, pledge year, big/little and what they collected (in case they turned out to be our secret Santa and we needed ideas).

After I graduated they started having the pledges make a scrapbook page about themselves - one side informative and one "fun" side.

Or just deferring recruitment so you only give bids to PNMs who have proven themselves academically.

Eeek, no -- then you'll be sure to have smart pledges, but fewer of them! ;)

There are pros and cons to fall and spring FMR but this isn't really the thread for that.

Oh, but this is the thread for discussing whether or not to initiate pledges prior to obtaining grades? :confused:

what happens if she did that during informal? could she have gotten away with it? you dont meet all the other sororities during informal, the president probably wouldnt even know she was on the campus.

Just because you don't meet the other sororities during informal recruitment doesn't mean she won't be found out.

Sure, women have gotten away with holding dual memberships, but depending on their lack of discretion and how careful they are/aren't -- they can very easily be outed.

maybe...

at the school I am at people dont really care. I've been told by girls I know in some sororities that they know sisters in theirs that have transfered and re-rushed.
it is sad though

I can think of 3 examples where someone pledged, but NEVER INITIATED. They then left that campus, which severed the pledge bond that they had to NPC Group #1. They then INITIATED into NPC Group #2 later at different campus. That is okay, because they only initated into 1 group.

It's definitely forbidden to initiated into more than one NPC group, and trust me, in the world of Facebook, MySpace, Google and the internet, it would be very hard to keep something like you are describing a secret. Unless that person got large scale cosmetic surgery, changed their name, and basically went into equivalent of witness protection, getting found out is virtually guaranteed. To initiate into a 2nd group, that person would be constantly on tenterhooks, wondering when they would get "found out", which to me, would not be a very fun way to live one's life. I'm just saying......<shrug>

I totally understand and agree with the NPC rules, but I do feel for some women who might feel the need to join another group.

When I was a collegiate, we lost a chapter the semester after I initiated. I new a few girls that were in this group that initiated the same semester I did. I cant imagine getting initiated into a group, just to be told the following semester that your chapter is closing and you will have no more sorority experience for the rest of your college career. We had deferred rush, so that would have made the women I knew sophomores. It would have been awful for me to have had 1 great semester and then sit back and watch for another 3 years. Just my 2 cents!

This is interesting! A fellow transfer students at my university wants to rush and has made a lot of friends in this one sorority and has already been unformally extended a bid. However, at her old school she was in a sorority but it got kicked off...I was under the assumption that she told them.

Because her sorority got kicked off her old university, do you think she elligible this time around? Or should I warn her about the consequences?

If she was pledging this sorority and hasn't been initiated, she's eligible.

If she was initiated into an NPC sorority, I don't *THINK*...I *KNOW* she is INELIGIBLE to join any other NPC sorority, regardless of if her original sorority got kicked off her first campus (the theme of this thread).

If you already know about her situation, then it's only a matter of time before the sororities do, too.

First, she should see if her sorority is on her current campus, and consider affilliating with them. If they're NOT on campus, there IS an option. Many schools have a "Stray Greek" club, called different names. It's for members of sororities (and fraternities) which aren't on the current campus.

If she hasn't found one like this, she should certainly think hard about it. I think it's one of most Panhellenic things one can do.