HELP! Can I rush a new sorority!?

[exlurker]

Hey! So I have a quick question.

. . . How would the girls at my new school know I had ever joined a sorority? I know it's skummy but could I just rush anyways?

HELP Thanks!

Others have answered the how-would-they-know question very well; I'd just add that an amazing amount of information can come to chapters via the recommendation process. Even if you think recs won't be needed for recruitment or getting a bid at your new school, guess what? Some sororities require them as a matter of national policy. So if (when) one (or more) of those sororities checks with alums in your home town, and/or with its chapter at your current school, to get a rec on you, what are they going to find out?

Oh yeah:
1) you lied on your recruitment application where it asks if you've ever been initiated in an NPC sorority;
2) you're ineligible for NPC recruitment anywhere; and
3) most important -- they now have some juicy information that will just have to be shared in an appropriate, dignified manner (or whatever).

That'd be a fun way to start life on a new campus.

[VandalSquirrel]

Originally Posted by exlurker

Others have answered the how-would-the-know question very well; I'd just add that an amazing amount of information can come to chapters via the recommendation process. Even if you think recs won't be needed for recruitment or getting a bid at your new school, guess what? Some sororities require them as a matter of national policy. So if (when) one (or more) of those sororities checks with alums in your home town, and/or with its chapter at your current school, to get a rec on you, what are they going to find out?

Oh yeah:
1) you lied on your recruitment application where it asks if you've ever been initiated in an NPC sorority;
2) you're ineligible for NPC recruitment anywhere; and
3) most important -- they now have some juicy information that will just have to be shared in an appropriate, dignified manner (or whatever).

That'd be a fun way to start life on a new campus.

I'd also wonder if trying to join a new group, when one has obviously met their own sisters on the new campus, would lead to having membership totally revoked from the original group. That would definitely be a good way to get negative attention from many members of the greek system, and have no alumna experience.