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Many sororities don't officially bar people over a certain age. Unofficially you will run into some obstacles based on the particular chapter.

I don't see why someone who is 40 would want to be in a collegiate chapter. If you're looking at a commuter school where people are over the traditional college age, the members of the sororities are often a nonrepresentative sample and still tend to be in their 20s. What do you really have in common with those younger women besides being a college student (and being sisters in a sorority that you love)?

You can love most of the same sororities at the alumnae chapter level. There, you will be able to interact with sisters younger, your age, and older and you won't be confined to collegiate level activities, schedules, and concepts of sisterhood.

But I completely understand wanting the collegiate experience. I know mostly men who have joined NPHC fraternities in their 30s (rarely in their 40s). They loved the experience but did it because they wanted the collegiate experience as distinct from the graduate chapter experience. Not because they truly felt they would really want to be running around with 19-20 year olders. Aside from the social events where they relived their youth, they ended up doing a lot of the service events and serving as mentors to the younger chapter members.