Sorority info

itsallgreektome
Mon, 19 Aug 2013 15:44:48 +0000

My daughter just finished rush. We did have the recommended (read required) two recommendations per sorority.

If you are having issues getting the recommendations, you can call the local panhellenic chapter in your city. They helped me finish up the last two sororities that I needed help with.

Please have your daughter go in with a good attitude and an open mind. Rush is superficial. It is also not personal. When certain sororities don’t give invites back, it might not have anything to do with your daughter and how she interacted with the actives rushing her from the sorority. The girl could have loved her but she might be a girl who has a big voice in the sorority. The pledge classes are huge. They were all over 110 this year (or right around there). The actives in the house number over 250, so even if every active has one favorite, then half of the actives don’t get their favorite girl in the pledge class.

Every sorority at Alabama is full of wonderful girls and they are all diverse. Some sororities are more known for scholarship (house GPA’s are posted online).

If your daughter is open to the process and doesn’t have her heart set on a specific sorority going into rush there is a 85% chance that she will pledge a sorority which she will be very happy with.

Also, speaking from experience the house I pledged in college was not my first choice during rush. When I looked back at the experience after graduation, I realized that I ended up exactly where I was meant to be. I truly don’t think that I would have been as happy at the houses that I thought I wanted as a freshman. The process usually works out as it should.

It was a good experience for my daughter. She gained more and more confidence as the week went on. Rush was way outside of her comfort zone. Meeting new people and engaging in small talk etc is difficult for her but she ended up meeting some great girls both in the sororities and in her rush group. She chose a sorority which I think is a great fit for her after meeting both pledges and actives at Bid Day.

Rush is stressful and can be overwhelming. I tried to keep my daughter focused on an open mind and just enjoying the process. She went in with a great attitude and had a really great rush!

Good luck!