NALFO/NPC

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Originally Posted by Jinxy13

I've looked all over GC and I haven't found a thread that answers this.

I went through formal recruitment at my school and ended up getting dropped from all the houses. I still really wanted to join a sorority for the sisterhood, and I pledged and was initiated into a NALFO sorority (I will not go into which one) and thought I would fit better there because I am Latina.

After a semester of being in it, I realized that it was not a good fit for me and ended up disaffiliating.

Currently there is a colonizing NPC sorority on my campus that I'm interested in. I know that I could potentially pledge this sorority and it would be allowed, technically, since the other sorority is not NPC. My question is if the sisters in the colonizing sorority would have a problem with it. Since it was not an NPC sorority and I have valid reasons for disaffiliating, do you think that would hurt my chances and the sisters would look down on that? Even if they don't ask, should I take it upon myself to tell them I was previously affiliated with a multicultural sorority or should I keep it to myself if they don't ask?

I only have this concern because they are on the same campus. Please let me know your thoughts.

I asked a friend that is in a NALFO Sorority (not at the school I attended) and is an active alumnae.
"This is upsetting but not surprising. I wish that she would have considered quitting during intake instead of wasting peoples time. I look at it this way (excuse me if I don’t use the proper lingo like you do): Girls who want to be an NPC organizations go into rush not having a clue where they will end up at the end. There is nothing wrong with that system if that is what you want to do. The NPHC interests have to research before they even choose to pursue an organization, and then more research on what they need to do in order to hopefully be selected. And then the chapters also want to get to know the women that are interested in order to make an informed decision. Our organizations mirror that of the NPHC. We don’t want women who just want to be in a sisterhood, we want women who want to be in OUR hermandad! We (and a couple of multicultural groups) worked closely with the NPHC on campus, so we didn’t have interests who were trying to be in both, and if they were it wouldn’t have been a good look anyway. They would’ve been denied. We did some occasional work with NPC/IFC chapters, and unfortunately, we never really talked about things like this. I wish we would have."