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Originally posted by OPhiARen3
Just looking for some opinions/ideas on this - my impression is that for NPC/IFC orgs, there is a lot of variety from chapter to chapter regarding the "personality" of the sorority/fraternity, and for NPHC orgs, this doesn't really seem to be as much the case. The NPHC orgs I guess just seem to be more standard in that regard - if you ask someone what the culture, etc., is like for an NPHC group, they usually are able to answer you, while for the NPC/IFC groups, people always say it depends from school to school.
I was wondering what you all think accounts for this - the way that recruitment works, the number of orgs, history, marketing? Something else entirely? Is one way better, or are they equally valid? Personally, I am a little confused about what seems to be a lack of real national identity for the NPC/IFC orgs, but perhaps this is just because not being in one of those orgs there is a lot that I don't see. Are they all essentially the same at the national level? What are the differences?
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From reading GC, one difference that I have noticed between NPC and NPHC sororities is that for NPC it seems that different chapters of the same org may use different colors / symbols / mascots depending on the school. For NPHC this is a big NO-NO.
Since I am not NPC, from the outside looking in, it seems that NPCs are obsessed with quota / totals - its all about numbers for every recruitment / COB event. For NPHC, the numbers can be impressive for some chapters (i.e, on some campuses AKA chapters can have 100 PNM, or 'on line' using the old term), but, there is no mandate set by the National org (as far as I am aware of for the other three NPHC sororities so correct me if I am wrong DST, AKA, ZPB members) to have cetain numbers each recruitment event with respect to the other NPHC sororities. That is why you never hear us worried about campus quota and total - those concepts do not exist for NPHC recruitment.
I also get the feeling that the whole selection process between NPC and NPHC is different. For NPC rush week, especially at an SEC school, it seems like a blurr - 100's of girls have to be 'screened' in a week before a bid is made. For NPHC it is encouraged that the PNM really do her homework - get to know the chapter members, support or be present at chapter events, be seen doing positive things around campus. This may take a whole semester of being seen and interacting with the chapter of interest, then when recruitment comes around, the chapter and the interested young lady have a history because each has spent a considerable amount of time together.