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[quote=Anonymous][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.

[b]Girls get emotionally abused for 5 sleepless, gut-wrenching days in a row [/b]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]

This is total B.S. [/quote]

Wrong. So many thoughtless, insensitive sorority defenders on this thread proving the point that it’s often a cruel system.

It is true for a majority of girls EVEN if they’re happy at the end of the week.  It’s fun on the outside and hell on the inside. And you can’t compare a NE SLAC rush with an SEC rush. Stop thinking emotional abuse is limited to name-calling. It’s a horrendous system that treats 17-18 year olds like crap. It doesn’t have to be this way but some schools choose for to be this way.

Parents:  when a school does rush the week before freshman year classes start, this is a RED FLAG. They are more interested in appeasing the Greek alums’ obsession hierarchy and tradition than they are in students mental health and college adjustment.  The most humane rush happens before second semester. Let them adjust to their new life and get to know the school before they feed them through the meat grinder of rush.

Notice how callous the defenders here have been and proceed with caution.

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Do explain who is being callous? You have peppered this thread with your bad experiences and I do feel sorry for you but that is not every experience. Neither is every fraternity hazing, at least in such a way that the boys are in danger either mentally or physically. Again, i and my DD have had a great experience and my DS Is as well. Your generalizing and negativity is actually quite callous if I had to find some callous posts here. You are belittling others positive experiences and essentially calling them liars. I am sure you did have a bad experience but how rude to discount the entire system because of your experience.[/quote]

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