Sororities often have themed socials with fraternities where sorority members get to meet and mingle with fraternity members while dressed up in costume. Sororities also organize date nights and semi-formal and formal dances think prom for college. Members of black sororities often call each other soror instead of sister. It has the same root word, but clearly differentiates itself from the traditional idea of a sorority woman.
The idea that sorority life is just about being social frustrates many sorority members, whose national chapters and mission statements stress the importance of scholarship and service. Every national sorority and most local sororities are involved with philanthropy work. Some sororities earmark specific charities and causes for which they work to raise money. Sororities will often hold fundraisers like basketball games and fishing tournaments.
Many sorority members participate in campus philanthropy organizations as well. While every sorority sister may not adhere to the ideals of her organization, there is ample opportunity to be involved in charitable work.
Most sororities have a mandated grade point average GPA that sorority members must meet in order to retain all the privileges of membership. A sister who falls below the established GPA might be required to attend study sessions or even have social privileges revoked. Perhaps as a measure to maintain the house average, some sororities have been known and criticized for having a sort of cheater's cache -- file drawers full of tests and class papers.
Criticism and rumors regarding cheating and hazing aside, for many women, being in a sorority can have a positive impact on their college career. But for others, it can be the very opposite.
Much like deciding which college to attend, deciding whether to rush is a personal decision. What may be right for one woman may not be right for another -- even if you are a legacy with your mother and grandmother in good alumna standing with a certain sorority. For more information on sororities, fraternities , college life and related topics, check out the links on the next page. Louis campus in as a new kind of sorority -- a sorority for mothers.
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Governing Bodies. Read More. Rush Basics " ". Dirty rushing is forbidden at schools with a formal rush. Sorority members may not contact potential new members before or during rush before a bid is extended.
Examples of dirty rushing include telling a girl during rush that she has a guaranteed bid to a certain sorority or buying a potential new member dinner. Legacies are girls whose immediate family were members of the sorority.
In most sororities, if someone's grandmother, mother or sister was a member of the sorority, she is called a legacy. Some sororities only consider a rushee a legacy if her mother was a member and remains active as an alumna. Legacies are generally given preference during rush, but are not automatically guaranteed a bid. Recommendations can also help a potential new member during rush. A current member or alumna of the sorority can write a recommendation with a picture and any personal information she feels might be helpful.
Most university Greek life recruitment guides and FAQs say that recommendations aren't necessary, but they may give the rushee an edge. Deferred rush is a formal recruitment process that occurs after classes have started; at many schools, formal recruitment commences before classes start, which some people think may distract students from their academics. COB usually occurs after a formal recruitment. Sororities that did not hit their quota might participate in COB.
COB can also useful for a girl who did not want to participate in formal recruitment or who did not receive the bid she wanted. The line is a name for the new member class of an NPHC sorority. This round is more conversational. The members want to meet you and find out if you would make a good member.
Also, this round is usually dedicated to a theme of sisterhood or philanthropy. Since there is a theme, the sorority members ask you questions about the theme. For example, if the theme for Round Two is philanthropy, some of the questions the members might ask are:. Again, make sure to keep a list of all the things you like and do not like about each sorority. After this round is completed, you rank the sororities you have visited.
If your recruitment process has a Round 3 not pref , it is very similar to Round 2. The members are going to share their recruitment stories and why they decided to be a member. It can get emotional. Some members might even cry. The members are going to ask you some tougher questions this round. Want to know what they will ask you? After this round, you rank your final sororities. The sorority you want to join needs to be in the first spot. This round is the only round where you have the opportunity to not rank all the sororities.
Yes, you read that right. You do not have to rank all of the sororities. If your number one sorority does not put you at the top of their Bid Day list, you are dropped from sorority recruitment. Want to learn more about a single preference vote? A lot of members do a blunt vote during Pref.
The members want to see certain women run home on Bid Day. How do they make sure women are at the top of the Bid Day list? This vote is why it is important to let the members know how you are feeling. If you love the sorority, you need to tell them you want to be there. You should talk about how much you love the sorority and how you could see yourself being a member.
However, you could politely say you are considering all your options. Bid day is the last day of sorority recruitment. It is when you finally find out which sorority gave you a bid. It is a really exciting day. You meet all your new sisters. I hate to break it to you….
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Click here to watch a video that will help you create your strategy. Step 1. To go through sorority recruitment, you have to register. Wear something casual, shorts and a tank are just fine and I encourage all freshmen to participate in these events regardless if they are going through recruitment or not.
This is such an easy way to get involved and meet new people. This meeting will last around two hours and they will be covering what to expect throughout each round of recruitment, what to wear, and answering any questions you may have. Basically, they are going to be telling you everything I am covering this week. This meeting usually happens a few weeks before the first round of recruitment. While at this meeting you will also get put into an SRC group. This group is randomly selected and will be who you travel to each round of recruitment with.
The number of groups depends on how many girls sign up for recruitment that year and there are typically girls in each group. These groups are also lead by a handful of SRCs which are sorority recruitment counselors. They are incredibly friendly and are there to help you in every way possible. You will not know which sorority they are in until Bid Day. So at Kent, recruitment is spread over two different weekends. There will be two days for the first round, also known as Open House and the following weekend will be Sisterhood, Preference, and Bid Day.
On the first day, you and your SRC group will be visiting 4 of the 8 chapters. You will have minute conversations with around five girls during this round. The following day you will visit the remaining four chapters with your SRC group. Anyway, if you're a PNM bearing witness to the door stack, just smile politely.
Uncross your arms. It'll stop eventually. And we swear it looks less batshit IRL, and is actually weirdly charming — it's very similar to being seated in the front row, right in front of the cheerleaders at a football game. Again, DOTS. Generally speaking, sororities follow a predetermined dress code: PHA-supplied T-shirts same design, but each house in a different color for Round 1, and coordinating, but not matching, snappy caj outfits during the following rounds.
And then on pref night, pretty much all require their members to wear black dresses. And pantyhose, if their advisers are old school. It's true: Many sorority composite photos have a Stepford Wives quality to them, made worse during recruitment when they are literally all dressed the same. Some of this is because people recruit new members the way they find new friends; people tend to gravitate toward people who look like them, for better or worse. It depends. But in the year , we should all know better than to pretend that only the south is racist!
Around the US, the overrepresentation of white people and level of racism in a Greek system really depends on the school and the individual chapters.
At Northwestern, a school with a very homogenous student body, sororities were pretty lily-white — but Terri remembers many houses vying for more diverse pledge classes as a way to break their stereotypes. At Michigan State, Rachel could count the number of black women in the non-historically-black Greek system on one hand the entire time she was there. She was one of them! It wasn't actually because WOC were getting rejected — it was because very few were going through recruitment at all.
Which is We could honestly talk about this for hours, but for now we'll just say that racism in the US is always a potential problem, especially when it comes to institutions that were founded on exclusivity and elitism. If she felt the reason was valid, she would pull the girl from the lineup and no one else from the house, including the president and VPM, would know it happened.
And a legitimate reason is not, like, "We went to the same high school and I heard she's kind of a bitch. If your mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, or any other close relative was in a sorority at any school, you definitely have a better chance of getting into their sorority!
Fun stuff! I mean Related: One thing you probably shouldn't do, though, is listen to other people about what houses are "good. Men also love to weigh in — e.
You're the one that'll be miserable if you join a house that's a bad fit, not them. Also, in our experience, people on the outside have noooooooo idea what they are talking about.
Yes, obviously? Whether you like it or not, you will get talked about in a dimly lit basement on campus filled with women in topknots and sorority sweatpants. That much is a guarantee. Life will go on. If you want to give it a try, you can accept the bid, start the new member period, and then ultimately decide whether or not you want to initiate in a few months.
If you choose not to be initiated, that's fine!
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