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[quote=Anonymous][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 need member dues to pay nationals and afford to keep their houses.  If your husband is rich, she doesn't even have to rush-she can get a snap bid where they stalk her until she joins.[/quote]

That’s not what a snap bid is. A snap bid is when they have spots left and call the girls that dropped after recruitment to see if they will take a bid on the spot.

But what i think you mean is dirty rushing, which is extremely common, despite being “forbidden” on paper. Sororities seek out the wealthy and connected girls, friends of members, influencers, etc and pipeline them straight in. They show up to rush and go through the motions, but then few weeks later you’ll notice that they somehow have pictures with their big from back on bid day when they should have just met. A lot of sororities on each campus have their entire pledge class solidified before rush even starts.

The poor freshman girls that just showed up on campus and decide to rush because they don’t know anyone and are looking for a sisterhood can’t understand why they keep getting dropped from houses, because they don’t know about dirty rushing, and if they do, the internet told them that it’s forbidden. So if they get a bid, they end up in newer or less desirable sororities…which are full of perfectly lovely young women, just like them…but they had their heart set on the trendier, cooler sororities and they feel the middle school style snub all over again. That’s when a lot of them get bittter and drop, and some even transfer schools looking for another try at rush.[/quote]

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