sororities
by: FreshmanWhat sorority is everyone thinking about/looking at??? How do I get sororities to look at me?
#1 by: gonna write an essay, sry
okay this is actually a really good question and something i wondered too before rush-
i'm in one of the top sororities and honestly i knew 0 upperclassmen before rush in the sorority that i'm now it. the process might be different for other houses, but i know that we do background checks on our girls and the only thing we look for before rush is "questionable" behavior (i.e. we see you puking outside the boot and getting sloppy on the reg). the rest of who we gives bid to really comes down to the conversations we have during rush.
i've heard rumors that other houses keep tabs on "cool freshman girls" and whether or not you've established a rep amongst different fraternities is a part of those houses' selection process. i'm not in these houses tho so that could be completely false.
knowing some upperclassmen can help, but only really if you're good friends with them. (if you REALLY want to take that avenue then clubs are a great and not-superficial way to meet upperclassmen.) and even then, you might find that you're really good friends with sophomores in certain houses, but come rush you're just not feeling it as much as you are some of the other houses.
overall i think it's better to lay low first semester. asking questions about rush and expressing enthusiasm about greek life is fine, but if you seem too enthusiastic about a particular house then that can be seen as a red flag.
Comment#2 by: hi
Im also in a top house on campus and i only knew a few upperclassman girls before rush in completely different houses than i ended up in and it turned out alright for me!! i would just enjoy your first semester, try not to be super sloppy at the boot, and be polite to upperclassman girls :) dont worry too much about rush night now
#3 by: junior
Honestly, there are so many freshmen girls and we as sorority members have so much other stuff going on during the fall semester that we're most likely not going to remember how you acted in the fall when rush comes unless you either a) are close friends with us or b) have a widely-known bad reputation (i.e. you're the girl who gets sloppy drunk and then hooks up with other people's boyfriends or you're the girl who made that sketchy post in the Class of 2019 FB group). So my best advice is to just be polite to everyone (which you should be doing anyway), focus mostly on making friends with other freshmen (some of them will be your pledge sisters this spring!) and try not to do anything shady.
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by: sophomoreSep 24, 2015 1:05:56 PM
These are spot-on! I didn't know a single upperclassman going into rush and still got into a top house. Its all about how you present yourself during rush - if you make a great impression and fit in at a certain house, you're likely to get a bid from that house. There are so many freshmen that its impossible for upperclassmen to notice and remember everyone so don't worry about getting older girls to notice you too much, cause most people are in the same position you are.
I think that the best advice for first semester is just to lay low and have fun, and try not to do anything noticeably bad as the posters before me said. But the main thing is not to be rude- you never know if the girl who bumped into you at bruff and made you spill your water is actually in the sorority you're dying to join. We don't always wear our letters around, and people tend to remember the times people are rude to them, and its better to not be know at all going into rush than it is to be know for being rude! Have fun this semester, and don't worry about rush until January!
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