[pinksequins]

OP (dz.lys), this breakdown may be helpful to you:

1. If the recruitment event is for a local sorority (and not for either DZ or an NPC group), then local Panhellenic rules control and you could seek membership in the local.

2. If instead you are seeking to be reinstated in DZ, eligibility for reinstatement is determined at the International HQ level. If HQ determines that you are eligible, it will tell you if it is as an alumna or as a collegian. ONLY if you are eligible as a collegian, does the collegiate chapter have a say on the matter.

3. No, not all NPC groups are the same on reinstatement policy. DZ's policy may be very different from that for other NPC groups. Only DZ's policy governs or matters. This is why everyone is advising you to contact DZ International HQ.

4. The one unanimous position for all of the NPC groups is that once you are initiated into one NPC group, you may never join a different NPC group. Local, yes; NPC, no.