For anyone who doesn't know, absolutuscchick (Rachel) was a member of a local sorority, transferred, and joined an NPC sorority--Kappa Delta.
For the NPC/NPHC thing, I think it would depend. If a woman transferred in who was an NPHC member (we don't have any NPHC orgs on my campus
), and wanted to find a sisterhood on our campus, I think we'd strongly consider her if we felt her motives were sincere and that she could be committed to both orgs. However, I don't know how her NPHC sisters would view that. My guess is--probably not so well. If an NPHC org were to come to our campus and women from our chapter wanted to join I think we'd be cool with that unless they were rude about it. I have a sorority sister who plans to join as an alum after college to the NPHC group her mother, grandmother, and sister are a part of.