as a pnm

If IU doesn’t use rev letters like those schools and doesn’t really use connections while looking at girls, how does it work then?

As an older sister I’m obviously a little biased but she’s super sweet and pretty but I’m not sure how I could help her, if at all. She would have three legacy connections (including a current sitting sister in a top house at her school) besides being in business honors at Kelley.

I’m from California and rush around me is pretty chill compared to the south I think. If IU is like those schools that don’t care about letter or connections, what do they look for?

Okay curious keep your POV together, your post are starting to sound fictitous 😍 Really a "sitting" sibling in IU and you don't know how it ends up?

Yeah, this is definitely fictitious. She doesn't know what a 'sitting sister' really is. And rec letters don't help anyone get a bid anywhere, they are a requirement from nationals for the chapters so it's easier to offer bids to PNM's who supply recs so the girls who don't usually get dropped unless they are stellar PNM's.

Sort of. There are schools where if you don't have a recommendation for each house then you will get immediately dropped by each house.

haha chill - if she went to my school, she’d have a sitting sis. Obviously I’m not at IU so I’m just legacy but I’m in what most consider the one of the top three houses at my school plus another three houses she would have legacy in.

I want to help prepare her for what to expect as much as I can but my rush vs hers seems to be two different worlds.

Rush here is long and emotionally draining especially when nearly every freshman goes in wanting a top tier house and each house only takes 55 girls. But the positive side to that is their are plenty of quality women in every single house. If she's smart she won't drop just bc she's headed to a bottom tier chapter. If she isn't she might have to be a geed

^ hate to say it but it's a lot easier to make a case against someone than a case for someone when making cuts. Rush here is more about luck than anything else which is why you'll see a handful of the insta famous popular freshman girls join bottom tier houses or drop because they thought they were too cool to join a bottom tier house. As long as you go all the way through rush you will get a bid from SOMEWHERE but for most people it won't be their favorite house from 22 party or the house or houses they convinced themselves were the only houses good enough for them months before rush even began. Basically if you're a pnm as long as you don't go through rush thinking you're too cool for 10+ houses you will get a bid somewhere and be happy there because there will be people you're obsessed with and people you're not so fond of in literally any of the 22 houses. Rush is so competitive here that every single house is genuinely a solid choice

THIS. This is why rush at Indiana is so hard compared to other schools. There are no bonus points for recommendations/who you know/GPA/legacy. Sororities here just do not care about that. It literally just has to do with personality and nothing more. There are almost 2,000 girls who go through rush and each sorority only needs 50 of their "type." Sororities can afford to be picky but the higher the tier the more exclusive they get. What are the odds that you, out of 1,700, are exactly the kind of girl they want?

Sorry Greek life is not dying @IU. It's just becoming tighter. With loss of few frats and one soriority, placement for ONE PNM becomes that more scrutinize.