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Originally posted by Taualumna
As alum, can they speak with several different GLOs the way you can wth NPC? I just find the NPHC method much more "rigid" than NPC. I really don't understand how you can make a decision based on what's on the website/printed info because you aren't actually interacting with the members. What the website says can be different from the members on one's particular campus.
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I think folks are interpreting this as hard and fast rules. People can do whatever they like. If they attend all the informationals some folks will see them as having tried to become well informed, however a vast majority will say they couldn't make up their mind. Because going into the NPHC process we know that we are expected to be active until health or death prevents us from doing so then the folks on a particular campus become less important than the national organization does.
AGAIN because we do not live together in OFFICIAL sorority/fraternity houses and most NPHC orgs require you to be sophomores to join, there isn't as much time on campus together to begin with. On top of which we don't necessarily hold rush yearly so someone may really only get a chance to join in their soph or senior year if that is how the chapter is alternating.
As an alumnae initiate, I could have looked at the other NPHC sororities again but as another member already mentioned my personal ideals and goals matched up to Delta so there was no point in that really. And as I've mentioned before, while anyone is welcome to apply most folks leave the rush process without being extending an offer of membership because it is a HIGHLY selective process.
ETA: We don't do alumnae initiation the same way as NPC/IFC do either (big surprise lol) so there is no direct contact with HQ before a chapter has decided to have rush. As alumnae/alumni members we are initiated through alumnae/alumni chapters.