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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From what I understand, the process is less brutal at SLACs. But you may want to ask around. At my school, it was absolutely brutal. There were houses with horrible nicknames that no one wanted to be in. [/quote]

My daughter attends a SLAC. She decided to rush and was only asked back to the "loser" sorority for the preference round. Her friends went to other sororities or, in a few cases, also only had the "loser" sorority as an option, so they decided not to pledge at all. They all seemed a little PTSD about the whole experience. Putting 20/21 year olds in charge of 18 year olds: what could go wrong?[/quote]

If schools did rush in the spring, it would make the connections a little more authentic and it would let the girls adapt to college first before the miserable trauma of it.  But I’m convinced that the drama of crying girls is part of the “fun” for the happy girls. [/quote]

+1 Rush should never be fall of freshman year.

My DD is at a small (under 8K), 25% greek school.  I never thought she'd be the type to rush (I hate the greek system for it's history and who it excludes, the concept of letting others rate you and tell you whether you are in the right place, etc).  But all of her friends rushed, so she did as well.  And all of her friends ended up in the same sorority as she did.  So I'm at least happy she didn't ditch her friend group, and this tells me that she most likely ended up in the right place.    Key perk: most sophomores live in the "house" so it will ensure she has decent housing with friends (it's required to live on campus sophomore year).  [/quote]

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