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Originally Posted by PhiAlpha05
I might wait until you've finished transferring (especially if you're not 100% sure yet where you are transferring). If you rush now you may end up pledging a house that doesn't have a chapter at your new school, and you'd be potentially shut out of rush at your new school (since I think you're bound to one sorority for a year after you pledge). A close friend of mine was in a similar situation--pledged one sorority at her old university, where she had enrolled after community college, but when she transferred out of that university and to another one without that chapter, she had to de-pledge and rush a different NPC house at her new school. It ultimately worked out great for her but I think that's the exception rather than the rule.
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If you are initiated, you may not join another NPC sorority at all. Ever. If you are initiated, and you transfer to a school where there is no chapter of your sorority, you are granted alumna status. If you transfer to another school where there is a chapter and you do not affiliate, you are granted alumna status. (It is up to the member to petition to transfer to the new chapter, and it is up to that chapter to allow you to affiliate.) If you affiliate, you are then a member of the transfer chapter with all the rights and obligations of a collegiate member.
If you accept a bid from a sorority, but you drop out of the sorority for any reason before initiation (even transferring to a new school), you may not rush/accept a bid from another sorority until the next school year. In your friend's case, it appears she was not initiated so she was simply bound to her bid until the new school year. Even if her new school had a chapter of the sorority she pledged at the old, that chapter isn't bound to honor her bid; it's only valid for the university where she pledged. Otherwise, we'd have PNMs shopping for colleges to join sororities if they could simply transfer their bids.
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