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Originally Posted by Senusret I
GG, didn't somebody of GreekChat affiliate with GSS as an alumnae initiate of some kind?
(Not trying to be messy, I just really thought I had seen that on here)
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I remember that...I just can't remember the username.
Let me explain. We have "collegiate" and "alumni" chapters within Gamma Sig.
"Collegiate" membership is open to BOTH undergrad and graduate students. If you are a student and you want to join the Gamma Sig chapter at said school, you may.
"Alumni" membership is, for the MOST part, just a transition from your collegiate chapter to an alum chapter. You can become alumni by graduating or by "honorable separation" (which for some people means that they haven't graduated, they might have just left school for various reasons--as long as they left their chapter in good standing they are eligible for alumni status).
Gamma Sigma Sigma does have an option for those who DID NOT join at the collegiate level. That is a process we call "auxiliary membership" in which that person can join an alumni chapter, but doesn't receive full membership until after a year (two years max). After that period then they receive full membership. That is what happened to the person whose username I can't remember, LOL. The sorority also has limits on how many of these members can be in the chapter; you can't have more than 50% of your membership be aux members. So, if a chapter was at their limit and someone else wanted to join, they'd have to wait until somebody leaves and another space is open.
What happens is that some of our members aren't as knowledgeable about this as they should be and use "graduate" and "alumni" interchangeably without knowing the difference. A true "graduate" chapter is just that. Everybody in the chapter is a college graduate; some of our chapters have members who don't have degrees.
Hope this cleared it up!