Transfering, but they have the same sorority
 

I really what to be in ABC sorority its a NPC sorority. However, I will have to transfer schools cause they don't have the grad degree here that I want. The school that I want to go to though has the same ABC sorority. Would I still be able to be a part of it if I had to transfer? Is there a process I would have to go through?

I hope this question hasn't been asked before. I tried to look around for the answer, but I couldn't find it. So I apologize ahead of time if this has been asked before.

Why are you worried about the school having a graduate degree program as an undergrad?

Because I have to with the job I want. I want to be a libriain or a musuem curator and you have to have a graduate degree to just get a job. You can't just have a bacholor's degree.

Are you an upperclassman, simply going to another school for your graduate degree? If that’s the case, many NPCs won’t allow you to participate as an active member of a collegiate chapter while in graduate school. Therefore, go through recruitment at your current school if you can (although I wouldn't advise doing so if you're a senior, as many chapters won't even consider you since you'd be initiated and then immediately be leaving school).

…Or are you a bit younger, and transferring as an undergrad? If so, if you join an NPC at your current school, there is no guarantee that you’ll be accepted into the chapter at your new school. The members of the new chapter would have to meet you, and would then need to vote you in to be active in their chapter (from what I understand to be the case with most, if not all, NPC organizations). Otherwise, you would just be deemed an alumna member.

But if this is the case with you, you probably shouldn’t join the sorority on your campus if you know you’re going to transfer (unless you’re perfectly happy leaving and being an alumna member). Because part of joining a sorority is getting along with the girls that are in your chapter, on your campus. If you join at the campus you’re currently attending and love the girls there, but then transfer thinking that it’s going to be exactly the same at the other school, you’d be wrong. Every chapter of every sorority is different. Therefore, if you know you’re going to transfer, I would advise waiting to participate in recruitment until you arrive at your new school.

OK, but why can't you just apply for a school with that degree program after you finish undergrad? Unless there are other reasons that you want to transfer.

Thank you so much for the help
I really appreciate it.
I am definitly going to have to decide.

right!

i'm a librarian and my undergrad and graduate institutions had nothing to do with each other. i loved (loved loved) undergrad and they *did* have a library science / i-school / whatever its' being called now, but i wouldn't have stayed there for undergrad AND grad.

I'm am thinking about that. I just wanted to know about it for when the time came.

^^ So what year are you in? Semester standing? And are you simply looking into grad schools for after you graduate? I'm confused as to what you're thinking about doing.

Freshman will be going into 2nd semester. I am thinking and planning ahead for the day cause the GPA requirement is insane. I will be going to a big university for my graduate because I found out they are accredited in the program their and that it is a really good one.

So if you're a freshmen who's not transferring, why is there even a question as to whether you should go through recruitment now?

Getting your bachelor's degree from one institution and your master's from another is not transferring.If the GPA requirement really is that "insane," I would suggest focusing on your studies.

I'd say she'd have to go back to basics with spelling and grammar.

I'm a LIBRARIAN and that post made me cringe. I've seen liberrian, but never libriain.

Either way, I don't know why this thread was made in the first place. And I'm confused by every post she's made, including the original one. None of them make sense (with regards to spelling, grammar and content), and none of them have anything to do with what she was originally inquiring about (even though the original post didn't really make sense at all).

This is how I saw it:

She's not Greek, though she wants to rush.
She wants to be a part of ABC sorority (an NPC).
She has to transfer because her current campus does not have the graduate program of her choice.
Her grad program campus of choice has ABC sorority.
She wants to know if she'll be able to continue on as an ABC collegian at the new campus.

Two things -- only 2 NPCs allow graduate students to continue on as collegiate members. She's not even an ABC (nor has she even been accepted to this new campus because she's only an undergrad freshman), so it's just a case of counting her chickens before they're even hatched.

^^ But is she actually transferring? Or is she staying at her current campus for her undergrad degree, and only planning to attend another school for grad school?

If that's the case, there shouldn't even be a question as to whether or not she should go through recruitment at her current school. It wouldn't really matter whether she's able to participate as a grad student. She wouldn't have to limit herself to those two sororities that allow grad students to participate (assuming they have them on that campus), because she's a freshman who can still be active in a chapter for 3-4 years.

Exactly.

I took her to mean the latter.

I wouldn't have had time to be active in a chapter as a grad student anyway - I wonder if she knows she's going to be pulling 50 hour "work weeks" - without having a job!

Originally when I responded to her, I thought that maybe she just said "grad" meaning undergrad, and that she was transferring to another campus soon. And she was asking, like a lot of other people have, if it would make sense to go through recruitment at her current school, and then transfer to another chapter. Either that, or she was close to being a grad student and wanted to know if she could still get involved in Greek life.

But she is in fact talking about attending graduate school in 4 years, which has nothing to do with undergrad. And there's no point in asking about transferring campuses/sorority chapters if she's not transferring.

Therefore, the whole post is useless. :p

To the OP, do your research about museum studies programs before you apply if your goal is to be a curator. A master's in museum studies will open up certain mid-to-upper professional jobs in museums that you would have otherwise had to work longer to get access to - but if you really want to be a CURATOR, a museum studies degree will get you jack. In that case, what you need is a Ph.D., in either history or art history, depending on your focus.

Also depending on your focus, you might want to check out public history programs.

Just so you know.

When people talk about going to the "liberry" I almost LOL

Actually, it really does depend on the graduate program whether a Masters is sufficient - but that is COMPLETELY off topic and a Library Studies degree is not going to get you a job as a curator anyway.

Well, an MA in museum studies would probably be good if you want to be curator of Podunk Country History Museum. If you want to work at a big museum in a big city, not so much.

I was going to go to a museum studies MA program until I starting doing informational career interviews with museum people in NYC and DC and they all said "Get a Ph.D. if you want to go places."

Of course, we see where I ended up with the Ph.D. thing. LOL.

Agreed about the library studies will get you nowhere with museum things. Also, I would suspect that at some places/for some jobs, an MA in Art History might be more advantageous than an MA in Museum Studies.

A lot depends on what you really want to do in a museum, so the OP needs to figure that out.

/ramble