[33girl]

1) You have to put your education first. If you were barely scraping by at your old school and being involved in a sorority was a big part of why you were doing so badly, you do no one any favors by affiliating and barely participating.

2) If with the transfer you change your major from something super easy to something super hard and time consuming, again, you do no one any favors by affiliating and barely participating.

3) Dues are different at every school, often with housing or lack of same being a factor. Just because you could afford them at Small Private College doesn't mean you will be able to at Big State School.

I would rather have someone who knows how much she can take on not affiliate, than be active and half-ass it or end up owing tons of $$ she didn't have to begin with.