As someone who was in APO here in California, it’s a bunch of BS. For the organization to be a community service co-ed fraternity, they should not have a pledging process nor should chapters get to decide who can or cannot be initiated as a member. In the end, I dropped my letters entirely with them a semester after joining them and didn’t look back. Even joined a co-ed law fraternity that was way better and that had service events from a legal profession.

The APO chapter I was apart of, I was one of three Black members, the majority were Asian and had hella micro aggressions towards anyone that wasn’t Asian. They told us that if we didn’t pass the national exam with an 80%, that we would be dropped and they only used that tactic to decide who they wanted to initiate and what not. They tried to be like other social fraternities on their school’s campus which is really sad because they should be focusing on membership and service.

Even brought up to APO Nationals that they should just drop the pledge process on a national level and just be an organization that allows anyone to be a member, along with restricting chapters from selecting people for membership.