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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Guys just rush and hope someone you like picks you. Go to some events in the summer and meet some guys with similar interests if it’s really important to him. They have different personalities and some are “dry”, so he wants to get to know them too.

Girls get emotionally abused for 5 sleepless, gut-wrenching days in a row then “omg, love it!!” for a year then want nothing to do with the rush process again unless they like judging people and being in control. Fun stuff. The nice girls pay a fine to avoid it. An “adult” is in charge but she never matured past her junior year in college and DGAF about the emotional trauma the poorly designed process inflicts. [/quote]

Kind of.

Most schools don’t have any dry frats, so there’s that. But guys can get multiple bids and choose which one to accept.

And I’d like to add that after the rollercoaster of rejection and lasting emotional trauma that they call rush, if your daughter is lucky enough to end up in a sorority, no, the girls aren’t all friends. There’s a base level of niceties, and an expected facade to maintain that is upheld to woo the next pledge class, but cliques run deep, and the sorting hat isn’t left at the door. A social pecking order exists within each sorority itself, and it’s a constant competition to get a big to choose you, to run for exec positions, to get a little to chose you, it goes on and on and on. Some girls drop by junior year. A lot are over it by senior year and more drop. Some hang in there but just stop going to a lot of stuff. 
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NP.  My God, this all sounds exhausting and traumatizing.  Do these kids ever study??  What an awful process.[/quote]

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