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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who never participated in Greek Life (my college did not have sororities/fraternities) I am curious how students choose which ones to rush or how it works in general.  Let's say a kid goes to school in the south and decides to rush for a fraternity, has no family who has ever done it and no idea which one is which, how does one select? Or do you rush and hope one selects you?  [/quote]

Sororities choose members through two processes: formal recruitment and informal recruitment.   During formal recruitment, potential new members (PNMs)  are invited to short parties/meet and greets with each sorority. They are then invited back to some, but not all sororities. This continues in multiple rounds until the PNM is invited to the last round -- the preference round. If a PNM is invited to that round, she has a bid from that sorority. The PNM then ranks each sorority from her preference round. The sororities rank PNMs on a bid list as well. The sororities then sit down and then match the bid lists and the PNMs preference. Every PNM who attends preference round is guaranteed a bid somewhere. The PNM can accept or decline the bid. If she declines the bid, she cannot accept a bid elsewhere for one year.

In informal recruitment, the sororities are allowed to issue bids to as many members as they have space for (chapter total).  They might have open house events that they advertise. They might just invite some women to visit with  members. It's casual.

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Fraternity recruitment is different. Individual PNMs attend recruitment events at different houses and are extended bids. They can attend events at as many or as few fraternities as they like. [/quote]

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