We had a guy transfer to our chapter my junior year. He came from a small college where his fraternity was the only "social" fraternity on campus, to a large university that has over 70 chapters. Must have been a culture shock for him. Anyway, we gladly took him, and he turned out to be a really good guy who did a lot for the house.
There was another guy who transferred to our school about the same time, but he didn't affiliate with us. He did come to a couple of our parties though. I never got the scoop on why he didn't join us; maybe he was too busy, or else he didn't like our chapter enough to join. I remember him telling me that the chapter at his old school was considerably bigger than ours, so maybe he thought he was slumming a little bit.
On the other end of the spectrum, during my sophomore year this guy from one of our other chapters visited our school because he was thinking of transferring. Not to be condescending or anything, but he was a real tool. We took him out to the bars that night and he acted like a complete idiot. To top it off, he was wearing his pledge letter sweatshirt, which is a no-no because (a) NO ONE wears letter sweatshirts to the bars on our campus, and (b) it was a really ugly sweatshirt. So everyone could see what house this moron was from.
Luckily, he ended up not transferring to our school. If he had, we probably would have had to take him. I don't know if there is an official rule for our national fraternity, but I'm sure it would have been frowned upon if we did not accept him at our chapter.
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