I participated in formal recruitment at a very competitive school in the fall of my sophomore year and joined an NPC sorority. I loved the women in the sorority and I loved pledging, but I was crushed to find out about a month into the process that my financial situation had changed drastically because of an event at home. I ended up depledging for financial reasons and I still feel awful about it.
Now I am entering the spring semester of my sophomore year. I am still unable to afford an NPC sorority, but I really want the brotherhood/sisterhood and I really want to give back to my school. I am interested in joining a co-ed honors fraternity. I would definitely be able to afford to do this without help from my family.
There are a few girls from the sorority I depledged who are already members of this fraternity. Although many people in the sorority know the reasons for my depledging, it is a very large group and I'm not sure that all of them are aware of the fact that I depledged for financial reasons. Even if they do know this, I'm afraid they will question my ability to commit and cut me from their group. I am involved in a few other activities on campus and I have been very committed to those, but I'm not sure if that will be enough in their eyes.
My questions are:
- The inability to join another NPC group within a year of pledging only applies to NPC groups, correct? I looked through other threads and that is the impression that I am getting, but I wanted to make sure.
- Should I rush the honors fraternity at all, or am I very unlikely to be pledged?
- If I do rush, should I bring up the fact that I depledged an NPC sorority right away, or wait for someone else to bring it up? If they do bring it up, how should I handle it?
I'm sorry if the answers to this post are really obvious - I tend to overanalyze things.
Thanks for your help.
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