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Generally, once you are initiated into a fraternity, you may not become a member of another. Even if you have a letter from the previous fraternity stating that you are no longer a member, the constitution and bylaws of many (but not all) fraternities prohibit it.

Back when I was an undergrad years ago I pledged one fraternity when they were colonizing; two weeks before the founding father class was to go through initiation I was put up before the colony's judicial board (for a stupid and youthful indiscretion that I will not discuss here) and unceremoniously kicked out two weeks before I was to be initiated. Devastated? You bet your ass I was.

Luckily, spring formal rush started the following week. I went into it hoping to get a bid; had I not succeded, I would have probably written off the greek system altogether.

Some of the fraternities wouldn't even give me the time of day once I told them I had depledged from (XYZ) fraternity, others were kind of cool about it, though I pretty much knew I would have had a snowball's chance in hell of getting a bid, and a couple of other fraternities seriously considered offering me a bid. I found my home at Alpha Sigma Phi and have never been disappointed.