Transferring schools/desisterizing...please help.

[fadedpromise02]

Thank you SO much for your responses! I truly appreciate all your insight and advice!

Just to clear a few things up...

I HAVE been a sister in my sorority for about the past three and a half years... so I was a member. We are local and we are part of Panhel. I was talking with a friend of mine who "resigned" (we actually use the term desisterize in my sorority! haha) from her sorority and they told her she wasn't allowed to pledge another sorority unless it was local. So I was trying to figure things out based on what she told me, but everyone here seems to know a lot more about the subject which is great!

I'm not sure if anyone's insight changes after knowing this, it seemed like some people thought I was only going through initiation and was not yet a sister. Is there a place on the internet that I might be able to see the rules? Or are you fairly confident that I would be qualified to go through rush? I just don't want to feel dumb for trying! Haha.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by fadedpromise02

I'm not sure if anyone's insight changes after knowing this, it seemed like some people thought I was only going through initiation and was not yet a sister. Is there a place on the internet that I might be able to see the rules? Or are you fairly confident that I would be qualified to go through rush? I just don't want to feel dumb for trying! Haha.

As long as your sorority is not one of the 26 National Panhellenic Conference sororities, you are indeed eligible to participate in recruitment.

However, participating doesn't mean you'll receive a bid. We don't know the culture of your campus so no one here can really say what your actual chances are. All the rules say is that you can go through recruitment.

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by fadedpromise02

Thank you SO much for your responses! I truly appreciate all your insight and advice!

Just to clear a few things up...

I HAVE been a sister in my sorority for about the past three and a half years... so I was a member. We are local and we are part of Panhel. I was talking with a friend of mine who "resigned" (we actually use the term desisterize in my sorority! haha) from her sorority and they told her she wasn't allowed to pledge another sorority unless it was local. So I was trying to figure things out based on what she told me, but everyone here seems to know a lot more about the subject which is great!

I'm not sure if anyone's insight changes after knowing this, it seemed like some people thought I was only going through initiation and was not yet a sister. Is there a place on the internet that I might be able to see the rules? Or are you fairly confident that I would be qualified to go through rush? I just don't want to feel dumb for trying! Haha.

To clarify, your friend was originally in the NPC. Anyone who is or was an initiated member of one of the 26 NPC organizations can never join another one. Locals, even if they participate in a campus Panhelllenic, are not included in this. You may join an NPC organization or presumably your friend who was in an NPC organization may join the local, providing the local has no membership requirements banning this. We are confident in your eligibility. However, the likelihood that you would be accepted as a 22-year old transfer student would vary greatly from campus to campus. At some places NPC groups commonly accept members with this status. On other campuses this would be unheard of.

The reason initiation is important is that if you were a new member (formerly pledge) of one NPC organization and left before your initiation, you would be eligible to join another NPC organization, although depending on your situation you might have to go through a waiting period before you could pledge to a new group.

The other thing I'd add, and this is based more on etiquette and past experience than "rules," but since it won't make any difference to your eligibility for NPC groups whether or not you resign/desisterize from your local group, I wouldn't bother. Doing so is unnecessary and might just cause hard feelings. You're already out of a group you'd lost interest in, so it doesn't seem like you have to make it explicit - you can just drift away. Of course if you're deeply offended by the group or something and want to dissociate yourself with it/its practices, that might be another matter.

You may read about the rules (called NPC Unanimous Agreements) here:

http://www.npcwomen.org/undergrads/s...-policies.aspx

[fadedpromise02]

I don't think it is very competitive...it's just a smaller state school in PA and seems very similar to my old school. I don't want to jinx it though!

[33girl]

I think I know where you were, I'll PM you though. If you are going through rush at any of the state schools you might not get into the top chapter on campus, but you should be able to get a bid. Not only that, people there understand the "I'm a ____ but I'm going to be here for 5 more years" concept.

Good luck!!

[violetpretty]

I think what may be confusing you is that you are assuming that NPC=Campus Panhellenic. The National Panhellenic Conference is the governing body for 26 member (Inter)National Sororities. For a complete list of all 26 groups, visit www.npcwomen.org

Campus Panhellenics can be called different things at different campuses, including: Panhellenic Council (PHC), Panhellenic Association (PHA), Campus Panhellenic Council (CPC), Intersorority Council (ISC) etc. Campus Panhellenics include all of the NPC organizations on a given campus, and may include locals/regionals/other non-NPC social sororities if they are present on the campus and if that is how the campus wishes to govern them.

You're wondering about your eligibility because you think you can't be an initiated two Campus Panhellenic organizations. The rule only applies to members of the NPC. At your new school, you are eligible to join an NPC, and possibly a local, if they don't have their own rules about it.