Back in the day, the smaller Podunk U campuses had "feeder" chapters. In other words, a girl who wanted to be an XYZ at State U but knew she probably wouldn't make the cut, would opt for a feeder school like Podunk U where she'd have better odds of getting in and then transfer out to State U. Back then, most chapters at State U took all transfers because it was just not the norm to start at one school and transfer.
Today, where people transfer around all the time, that's not the case. So affiliation has gotten to be more problematic. And the groups at State U caught on to what was happening and decided to just not take transfers any more. Of course, this was mostly in the South....
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