advice for sorority rush 2019 (part 1)

To all the girls rushing this fall, here is MY advice for you. This is based on my opinion/experience and my friends’ experiences. Even if you feel like you know everything there is to know about rushing, this will be extremely helpful. Only in the most recent year or 2 has sorority rush here become actually competitive. This past year had the largest incoming freshmen class so rush was definitely more competitive taking into consideration the much larger # of girls rushing. This upcoming year is most likely going to be the same. It’s not very likely to get all the houses on your list back. Not saying it’s never going to happen, but majority of the girls will not. Don’t take this to heart. Focus on what YOU can do during the process. It’s a 50/50 relationship, so you can’t control everything. It’s a tiring process, trust me. You will be tired, you will be bored sometimes, you are going to be stressed out sometimes, you are going to want to cry sometimes. BUT, if you believe that the process is worth it (I hope you do!) you will make it through. Don’t let your tiredness, stress, and all that get the best of you. Don’t let it ruin your chances. Try your absolute hardest to put your game face on the second the round starts. It’s ok to admit to whoever is rushing you that you’re tired, we all are. But in my opinion, it’s best to not focus your conversation around that or let it affect your convos with girls in the house. Push thru those 15/20/30 or so minutes. Try not to yawn every minute or sound bored (even if you are). Even if you think the girl(s) rushing you that round aren’t your “type” of person or you think they’re weird/boring, they don’t represent the whole house. One round you might get an amazing girl(s) to talk to and you’ll love her but then the next time you come back, you might get a polar opposite girl. Try to remember that not every girl in the house is the same, so it’s important to not “blow off” a round because you think you don’t like that house. You may come back the next day and end up loving the person you’re talking to but have slightly ruined your chance at getting a bid if the day before the girl you talked to didn’t rate your round experience/speak well about you. This also goes the other way. It can be detrimental if you don’t “hit it off” with a girl(s) during a round. You may be trying your absolute hardest but if the person rushing you isn’t meeting you half way, you might not get invited back to that house the next day. This has happened to myself and my friends. We went through some amazing rounds at houses and then found out we weren’t invited back the next day, which we secretly feared, due to one bad round because of people rushing us that weren’t meeting our efforts during convos halfway. My next piece of advice is to make every single second you’re in a house count. There are hundreds of other girls going into the same houses as you, being asked the same questions as you. Show off your best qualities. Make yourself memorable (in a good way). For some girls this could mean talking about what all you did in high school and plan to do at college (basically what you’re bringing to the table). For some girls this could mean showing them how funny you are by making jokes (appropriate ones and NOT hurtful in any way). Show off your talents, your aspirations, your best qualities. Don’t go through rounds acting like you think everyone else would or else you have a high probability of being forgotten and lost!