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I have no doubt that some folks would really go to one campus to pledge and then transfer, but my guess is that the campuses that they would pledge at have that problem generally. They'd lose members to the big state U every year whether the girls did it deliberately or not.
For example, UGA has gotten kind of freakishly hard to get into compared to how it was when I went there. Other than Georgia Tech* and Georgia Southern where people go and plan to stay, most other four year schools in Georgia have a pretty big group of students start one place and go elsewhere.
If anything, it seems to me, having girls who joined a less prestigious group because they planned to transfer would help the chapters on the first campus rather than hurt them because they might attract more girls based on the GLOs overall reputation. (Now if your rate of girls transferring was a lot higher than that of other groups, FSUZeta is obviously completely right, but it doesn't seem to be that big a problem that I know of, but of course every situation is a little different.)
*Tech is equally hard or harder to get into. It always used to be harder, but I think since Tech applicants are more self-screening they don't have to reject as many these days.
And I'm certainly not trying to say that everyone applies to UGA and when they don't get in, they start somewhere else. The majority of kids pick their schools based on where they actually want to be, and there are plenty of good schools. But I suspect the retention rate of students at four years other than Tech, UGA, and Georgia Southern is lower to start with, so the affiliation policies aren't as likely to cripple groups as it might initially seem. Florida may be a whole 'nother story.
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