quick question-transfer
 

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You are in school to get an education, not to be in a sorority.

First of all, quota is the # of PNMs a sorority can take during recruitment. Total is the # of members the sorority is allowed to have.

No one here is able to tell you what your chances are. Instead of asking a bunch of strangers, maybe you should talk to your EC/Judicial Board (whatever you call it).

Listen to AlphaFrog!!!!

chapters may accept transfer members wishing to affiliate at anytime-having pledged quota and being at or above total will not prevent the chapter from accepting the transferring member, however, many chapters like to have a "get acquainted" period to see if the member seeking to affiliate with them would be compatible with their membership.

I've always felt like this is crap. We don't expect alumnae to have a "get acquainted period" before joining an alum chapter, so why do we limit the rights of initiated members just because they weren't initiated at the chapter they are trying to join. Who cares if she isn't a great fit....she's a sister, and you should find a way to make a sister fit! Just my two cents.

you don't owe any of us here an explanation.

glad i could help. good luck with whatever decision you make!

I tend to agree. Unless there's a standards issue or she wasn't fulfilling her obligations to her old chapter, I think it should be easy for girl to affiliate at a new chapter.

I understand that problems can arise when certain chapters are considered feeder chapters for more selective ones (girls choose to rush at one place with the intention of transferring after initiation). But if we're national or international groups, it seems lame to be anything other than fully welcoming to a sister who has been initiated into the group.

If we have wildly different standards for membership at one chapter versus another, how can we really regard ourselves as unified groups?

To the OP: I can't recommend letting your chances at affiliation guide your choice of schools, unless you are choosing between two academically equal schools and you are using affiliation chances as some sort of tiebreaker.

If that's the case, FSUZeta clarified that the group, in terms of NPC policy, can accept you even if they are over total and you ought to talk to your officers and get advice and then maybe start making contacts at the new chapter to see. They are the ones who will really get to decide how easy or hard it is for you to become a full, included member of their chapter.

Can alum members become active again? :confused:

I think this is true for AOII. I wonder if every NPC has the same rule. If you are at a campus with an active chapter and you have not graduated, you can join the chapter.

Gotcha. Yea, if you were initiated at Uni#1, and transferred to Uni#2 that didn't have your GLO, I'm pretty sure most all NPC sororities would make you alum.

However, I could be wrong on this, and it may vary from GLO to GLO, I don't know if the alum status can be "reversed" if you transfer to Uni#3 and that school has your GLO.

That might be something to ask your Exec Board or HQ of your GLO.

Not in our sorority.

Case in point...when a recolonization occurs, the former actives go alum. The sorority recolonizes, and the pledges become the only actives. Now, alum can be invited to social events, such as formals, but can't actively participate in recruitment, greek week functions, etc.

Exactly. I requested alum status 2 semesters before I actually graduated. One of the things EC told me was "once you change your membership status to alum, you can't go back to being a collegian."

I know of at least two girls from my chapter who transferred to a school without an AGD chapter, only to transfer again to a school that has one. For reasons unknown, they wanted to be collegians again (they were still undergrads), only to be told that they couldn't because they were already granted alum status.

One of my daughters transferred to a school that had a chapter of her sorority. She didn't want to affiliate because she was in such a time-intensive major and assumed she'd be considered an alum. She was told, though, that she wouldn't be until the class she'd pledged with had graduated; that was 2 years later.

This is true but not everyone cares a great deal about WHERE they go to school just as long as they are in school or just as long as they attend a good school. So why not transfer to a school that has your organization on campus? This is how some people think and I don't think there's anything wrong with it. We all joined our organizations because we obviously wanted more than just the educational experience that college has to offer. That's the truth.