For NPC sororitiy women

[valmypal]

I personally have not experienced this, but I do know a girl that transferred to our college and is a DZ. She met with the DZ's from Cal to see if she would feel like she fit in and so they could meet her, get to know her, etc. I don't know any of their policies or if there were fees or anything, but I do know she affiliated and was very active with the chapter. So it was a happy ending!

[ComradesTrue]

As far as I know Theta allows affiliation with an affirmative vote by the chapter the member wishes to affiliate with.

I went to a private college that literally pulled students from every corner of the country, and IIRC 40% were out of state. It was common every year to loose a few members to transfer because of being home-sick. There were several members in my pledge class that did affiliate with their new school upon moving closer to home. We enthusiastically endorsed them, as they had been good members. I believe that extrapolating that the member "is not loyal" to the original chapter is a bit of a stretch. There are many, many legitimate reasons to transfer, and this should not be held against a member.

We also had several individuals who affilated with our chapter while I was there. They were wonderful additions and one even served as an officer.

All that being said, there was a girl on our campus who went through recruitment both as a Freshman and a Sophomore (we didn't have COB) with the *sole* intention of being an XYZ... the other 9 houses were all beneath her in her mind. She was cut from XYZ both years. So... before school even started sophomore year she transferred back home and went through recruitment at the local commuter college and got a bid to their XYZ chapter.

Would you believe she showed back up on our campus junior year and tried to affiliate with our XYZs? They voted to not affiliate her.

[KSUViolet06]

My sorority allows girls from other chapters to affiliate with us pending approval from the chapter they're looking to affiliate with.

In my particular chapter, we had a handful of transfer ladies affiliate with us in the time that I was there. We usually invited them to come to a few chapter events beforehand, so they could get to know us and see if they wanted to pursue affiliation (and for us to see if we meshed with them).

We were really fortunate in that every girl who pursued affiliation with our chapter actually fit in really well. We never had a situation where the transfer was denied affiliation.