Hi everyone!
 

Hi everyone!!! I'm new here! I'm not in a sorority but I came here for advice on joining one. I am planning to go back to school in the fall 2008 as a freshman and I am really intersted in joining a sorority. My only concern is, do they accept girls who are older(i am 24) and also are they accepting of girls who are already married? I know you guys are probably wondering why would someone who is already be married want to join a sorority. Well I have always wanted to join one but when I was in college before I didn't have my head on straight and I wasn't focused on my school work so I ended up quitting school. I feel now that I am older and wiser I am ready to start over. I am new to the town I live in and I feel joining a sorority will help me meet new people and it will also help keep me focused in school. I also want to join because of all the charity work sororities do. I think it is amazing what the students in the greek system do for their community and I want to be a part of all that!

Thank you in advance for all the help and advice you might have! :)

Hello, the questions you're asking have been discussed many times before. I encourage you to look around GC a bit further (in the Recruitment, rather than Greek Life forums) for the answers to your question. Here are a few threads to help you out.

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=88592

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=10346

Just a hint for future posting: it's almost never fruitful to ask broad questions about sororities on GC. Try to avoid them because if we don't know your specific campus (and I wouldn't recommend making it public) then we can't give you good advice. There are literally thousands of sorority chapters all over North America and no two chapters are exactly alike. I guarantee there are some chapters that wouldn't think twice about giving a married 24 year old a bid, and some chapters where hell would freeze over twice before a married 24 year old received a bid, and plenty in between.

thanks for the help!

Very well said, AChiOhSnap. It's unfortunate, but married, nontraditional PNMs should look around their campus to see if being older and married is a departure from the sorority members already on campus. That being said, go to rush and try. You'll never know what could have been if you don't!

How are you starting over as a freshman? Most universities won't allow anyone with previously earned college-level credits to disregard their record and be classified as a freshman.

Also, what type of sorority are you interested in joining?

At my alma mater, anything less than 25 earned credits is classified as a freshman. If a student enrolled in 1997, earned 21 credits, dropped out only to enroll again in 2007, she's still a freshman.

^Wow, I have never heard of that before! That's actually pretty nice. Up until now, I have only heard of the following at various universities: When a freshman drops out, but then later wants to attend a different university, he/she cannot disregard the previous record, and must re-apply as a transfer. However, since most people who drop out freshman year don't have enough credits to apply as a junior transfer, they usually have to go to another school until they earn the minimum credits to re-apply at that level.

Most colleges and universities rely on hours to determine your year. If you've only completed 28 hrs by the end of your freshman year, then you return in the fall as a freshman and will only be elevated to a sophomore once you complete 30 hrs. That being said, how often do people talk about what year they are in college anyway? I was a sophomore after my first semester in college and a junior by the spring semester of my second year. I just got to be a senior for one and 1/2 years before I graduated...doesn't make a bit of difference. I also think that many state colleges around the country allow people to re-enroll without attending another college to get to Junior status before transferring. If everyone did this, then no one would be able to find a place to study until they got enough hours to transfer...every school would expect them to have 90 hours.

Not true for UC schools. You can't drop out of a college freshman year, take off several years, then come back and apply to UC as a transfer. The original poster said she is now living in a new location, so I raised my question because I have never heard of a person attending one college, then being admitted years later somewhere else as a freshman.

So now I am confused: Pinkgirl83, are you going to be at a DIFFERENT university, or the same one? :)

As far as asking about how often people ask about a person's year in school, it really doesn't matter generally, but I suppose it does indeed matter if this woman (OP) is going through NPC recruitment. :)