[adpi*violet]

How exciting. Can't wait to hear your story. I echo what everyone else has said about waiting to post which three groups are officially presenting. Even after that, be discrete about what you post about each group until one official one has been chosen. (I.E. don't post. "Oh we LOVE XYZ, but ABC gave a terrible presentation and now we don't want anything to do with them.")

I was a founding member of my chapter that went from a local to an NPC- actually, the whole campus went from locals to NPC chapters at the same time. The way it worked for our campus was exactly like rush on a larger scale. The local sororites ranked their top three choices of the NPC orgs who had presented and the NPC orgs ranked the local organizations they wanted to invite to affiliate with them. Then there was a matching session where the 7 groups were matched up. Luckily for us, the NPC orgs were all willing to affilate each entire chapter, so there was no membership review with only certain girls from the local selected. That would be another question for the NPCs presenting at your campus: Are they willing to welcome your entire local sorority right now, or are there stipulations involved that only certain girls will be invited or perhaps you need to pledge so many more girls before you can officially become a colony, etc.

Was your local the only sorority that expressed interest in affiliating with an NPC, or how was your sorority chosen as the one that will be affiliating?