I joined a fraternity during fall 2013 and I was a naive freshman in his second semester of college. I had no friends when I first went to college so I decided to meet some new people. They eventually convinced me to help them establish a fraternity. At the time, I had no idea what a fraternity was and frankly didn’t bother to ask. I just thought I was going to make some new friends to party and hangout with. Anyways after I established this new fraternity on campus at my school with 8 guys(I tried quitting, but they kept promising me that we will be big and popular etc. Our classes have been getting smaller and smaller and I don’t like hanging out with the guys in my frat at all. I tried to make it work for a year, but it’s not working for me, which is why I want to quit and join a new fraternity with people that I get along with. My #1 regret in college so far is I haven’t experienced everything with greek life since the people i crossed with have low grades and we’ve been on academic probation for 2 semesters. barely anyone on campus knows about us and everytime I’ve tried to get people to start doing stuff, but no one is doing anything and I’m sick of being the only one trying to help improve this chapter. I am in a mgc fraternity and was wondering if I leave a mgc frat, will I be able to join an ifc frat?
Maybe. I know that the major councils (IFC, NPC, NPHC, probably NAFLO, MGC) generally do not allow members to leave one organization and join another one within that council. I also know that some councils have agreements with other ones - for example, the NPC and NPHC sororities have agreements with each other, so that if a young lady joined an NPHC sorority, she can’t de-pledge and join an NPC sorority (and vice versa). This is in keeping with both councils’ belief that sorority membership is for life - once you join a family you can’t leave and decide to join another.
So, you’ll need to check whether the MGC has an agreement with IFC fraternities (or whatever council you want to join) about whether or not their members can depledge and join another org from that council. If you’re in a new chapter of an established MGC fraternity, then the fraternity’s bylaws should be available to you and you should be able to take a gander and figure it out.
But that will only answer whether, theoretically, you could depledge and join another fraternity. It doesn’t answer the question of whether your college’s Greek system will welcome you and whether another chapter would actually select you in rush. I know at my own college, there were a few sororities that didn’t have formal agreements about cross-membership with NPHC sororities - you could theoretically join both - but in practice, if you wanted to be NPHC, there were some sororities that would be okay to hold dual membership in and some that absolutely would not be. So maybe if you have some fraternity friends in IFC, you can ask them what the optics would be like for you if you tried to depledge your own fraternity and join an IFC one.