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Here's a question I've been thinking about while reading this thread:
Does it really matter that the OP is biracial? Does having one white parent entitle you to NPC membership? Does having one black parent entitle you to NPHC membership? Do either of them predetermine whether or not someone would be more comfortable in an NPC or NPHC environment? Perhaps historically, and perhaps it's true of Ole Miss (I have no idea of the campus culture beyond "it's in the south"), but I think in particular there is so much that both types have to offer on the national level that stereotyping either is an exercise in futility.
I'm also borderline offended (I suppose as offended as I care to be seeing as this is an internet discussion) at the implication that NPC sororities hide their racism behind the idea that membership selection is private. If that's true of us, it's true of the NPHC and other types of GLOs as well. At the end of the day, private is private, and often times even the members that voted on specific potential new members do not know why that person was not offered the opportunity to join.
I'll admit that sometimes it could be as simple as the potential member's race, or their eye color or hair color or whether or not they're ugly or smelly or WHATEVER. Sometimes it's not. That fully depends on the chapter involved, the members of the chapter involved, and the specific organization. I do doubt, however, that any NPC has a check box for race on their membership forms.
At any rate, I think the best advice for ANY potential, be it NPC, NPHC, NALFO or local, is to be aware of what they want out of a greek life experience and to be the best potential member they can be. If the OP is not, then she's going to have a hard time getting into ANY organization. As far as she goes, she needs to make a decision which type best fits her own goals and to stick to it. Either way, she's going to limit herself.
Not that she hasn't limited herself already by posting as much as she did here. She might have limited herself to sorority chapters that have never seen nor heard of the internet.
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