[ASTalumna06]

Are you an upperclassman, simply going to another school for your graduate degree? If that’s the case, many NPCs won’t allow you to participate as an active member of a collegiate chapter while in graduate school. Therefore, go through recruitment at your current school if you can (although I wouldn't advise doing so if you're a senior, as many chapters won't even consider you since you'd be initiated and then immediately be leaving school).

…Or are you a bit younger, and transferring as an undergrad? If so, if you join an NPC at your current school, there is no guarantee that you’ll be accepted into the chapter at your new school. The members of the new chapter would have to meet you, and would then need to vote you in to be active in their chapter (from what I understand to be the case with most, if not all, NPC organizations). Otherwise, you would just be deemed an alumna member.

But if this is the case with you, you probably shouldn’t join the sorority on your campus if you know you’re going to transfer (unless you’re perfectly happy leaving and being an alumna member). Because part of joining a sorority is getting along with the girls that are in your chapter, on your campus. If you join at the campus you’re currently attending and love the girls there, but then transfer thinking that it’s going to be exactly the same at the other school, you’d be wrong. Every chapter of every sorority is different. Therefore, if you know you’re going to transfer, I would advise waiting to participate in recruitment until you arrive at your new school.