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Originally Posted by couggirl
This is late, but Congradulations.
I had a question about colonization and was hoping that its okay to ask, if not I appologize.
In a situation where there is a house already, do some of the girls move in right away or do they wait until next term?
Weird question, im just curious as to the only recolonization that i was around the chaper did not have a house until their 2nd year.
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Well, I would say that the norm is that the sorority probably does NOT have a house when they colonize. Obvious exceptions are places where it is a recolonization and the sorority still owns the old house, and places like Bama and Illinois (I think it was) where the sorority makes advance arrangements to rent a house from another GLO for its first few years.
My impression is that they don't move in until the second term at least, but I'm not clear on that. I would guess the colonizing group just follows campus practice. Obviously there are some schools where all the new members move into the house immediately after recruitment. There are others where freshmen live their first year in the dorms and only move in sophomore year. At those schools, the colonizing members (or at least most of them) would probably be locked into housing contracts or leases for a year and thus unable to move into the housing...
Anyway just my own uninformed ramblings. It is an interesting situation. I mean, it would seem ideal from a financial and administrative standpoint to have at least some members, maybe the upperclassmen, move in right away (to get the rent going, to have some of the new chapter leaders living in the house and running things from a central location where they can also have frequent contact with the consultant and/or advisors)....