Switching from a Local Sorority to a National One

[AnotherKD]

Back to the original topic...

OP, looking at your posts, you said you were in the local for not quite 2 semesters and you have been out of that local for a year now. So, on top of everyone knowing you were in the local and probably not wanting to extend a bid to you for that, you'll also be rushing as a Junior?

[aopirose]

Originally Posted by 33girl

If the local is a full member of Panhel, you should not rush a new sorority.

As I stated before, it would be a total diss/invalidation of your previous sorority, and unless the local is a total and complete joke and no one on campus respects them, any NPC that takes you is not going to be looked at kindly either. "Wow...XYZ must be in trouble...they're taking the local's leftovers."

Seriously, I would not have any respect for a chapter that did this. You would have to be super incredible awesome to infinity (or, as I said, the local would have to be a complete joke on the verge of dying out, and even then people might have pity on them) for a chapter to take on the burdens that might come with bidding you.

Originally Posted by AnotherKD

OP, looking at your posts, you said you were in the local for not quite 2 semesters and you have been out of that local for a year now. So, on top of everyone knowing you were in the local and probably not wanting to extend a bid to you for that, you'll also be rushing as a Junior?

I don't think it's a good plan either.

[mkprncss]

Originally Posted by AnotherKD

Back to the original topic...

OP, looking at your posts, you said you were in the local for not quite 2 semesters and you have been out of that local for a year now. So, on top of everyone knowing you were in the local and probably not wanting to extend a bid to you for that, you'll also be rushing as a Junior?

Yep. However I have roughly three more years (if not four) here

[violetpretty]

If you don't care what kind of mess you make (in terms of relations to your local) and you don't care if you don't get a bid (meaning you'd rather not wonder "what if"), I say go for it. However, I think the GCers have warned you of what could happen with the local and the chapter you want and I think you're REALLY setting yourslef up for disappointment by only wanting one chapter.

Oh, and als463, it's not necessarily ZTA; it could also be AXO (victims of domestic violence) or DPhiE (anorexia nervosa) too...their philanthropies is more geard toward women, but not exclusively so.

[jennyj87]

Originally Posted by atoheadlines

I dunno what a troll is because unlike you DDD I wasn't born when the internet was first made.

What? Does this not make sense to anyone else?


Anyway, coming from a small greek life, everyone knows everyone. I can tell you that there are a lot of questions when a girl quits one sorority to "join another" because nothing is guarentteed. We had one girl do that two years ago and the next year she went through recruitment she got cut by all three the first night. Its not like you rushed on year, didn't get in so you tried again. I'm not saying there is no chance, but be careful to put too too much hope into it.
It might be different if you know everyone in the national sorority. They might understand your situation, but if they dont know, they might cut you.

[33girl]

If the local sorority is not in the school's Panhel, rushes completely separately and basically is "apart" from the 3 national groups, you might have a chance.

But if the local is a full member of the school's Panhel, rushes at the same time and competes for the same rushees - do not do it. You would be basically invalidating the local as an entity that's on the same level with the other 3 groups. That would completely ruin any "good terms" you left on, and there are most likely people in the Greek system who just wouldn't cotton to the local being dissed in that way.

My pledge sister had a big who was active the semester she and I were pledging, student taught the next semester, and then graduated. She didn't use it as an excuse to not be active in the sorority. I know it sucks, but seriously, this is not even a factor - and at your state, you're kind of past needing a big to guide you through Greek life. Did you take a little? If so, you did the same thing to her that your big did to you - even worse, since your big went alum and was still a sister. Point being that "my big went MIA" is NOT a feasible reason to want to pledge another group.

[DDDlady]

Originally Posted by atoheadlines

I dunno what a troll is because unlike you DDD I wasn't born when the internet was first made.

And you know when I was born how? And you posted like a troll. Based on your username I would guess you are a guy, and based on your internet comment, I guess you are no spring chicken either. You posted an irrelevant and slightly mean response, and that is why I called you a troll. This girl was asking about a situation with sorority recruitment.