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I'm from North Carolina too and I'll tell you my experience. I'll preface this by saying I didn't pull the trigger on Alabama until January of my senior year, so our experiences won't be the same, but I think this will help: I didn't live in Charlotte or Raleigh-Durham area so the number of people I knew at Alabama was very limited. In fact, I only knew one person in a fraternity from my hometown, but in truth our knowledge of each other was only through a mutual friend I hardly knew. After reading everything on here, I quickly became concerned that this one guy would be the only way for me to get into a fraternity. During a long holiday weekend my mom and I decided to visit Alabama for greek preview weekend and to take a tour of the school, and while I was down there I got into contact with this guy from my hometown for the first time. We met up, I visited his house (top 10 but nothing spectacular) and we had entirely clashing personalities. It frightened me to think that this guy, the only person who could give me a bid, was also so different from me. I left that weekend on his and a few other fraternities rush lists after meeting reps at greek prevoew but I was still very confused about fraternities and where I stood with them. About a month later my future roommates invited me down to Alabama after promising to get me into a few of the biggest rush parties of the spring (if you're on anyone's rush list next spring you'll be invited) and I met with three different..,