With this semester’s rush in full swing, we’ve compiled and averaged the overall ratings for each sorority nationally and ranked them 1 – 10. While each chapter’s reputation in generally different depending on which school they belong to, we think this gives a solid overall picture of where these sororities stand across the country ...
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GreekRank rounded up the top sorority Instagrams (national and local chapters) again this spring semester. Some have tens of thousands of followers, others look like they may have been curated by a social media strategist, and others are downright beautiful....
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Ah, that time of year -- sorority recruitment -- where we find ourselves spending too much time in the guilty pleasure that is watching sorority recruitment videos. Usually a well-edited mix of time lapses set against pop techno, girls on speedboats, the latest trends in bikinis, and of course, convertibles cruising coastlines and/or desert backroads. Here are this semester’s best sorority recruitment videos....
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Greek housing -- famed for its mansions, Roman columns, its long, landscaped lawns, and the sea of freshman who stand outside during rush week eager to call one of the homes their own. Across the country, most schools have some semblance of a Greek “row” or “village.” And as we do every semester, GreekRank.com presents you with list of the best houses in America for Fall 2018....
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GreekRank rounded up the top sorority Instagrams (national and local chapters) this summer. Some have tens of thousands of followers, others look like they may have been curated by a social media strategist, and others are downright beautiful. Here's who made the list....
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Glistening chandeliers, all-brick exteriors, and mile-wide porches. Some of the most beautiful sorority houses in America are fit for royalty -- and we can't stop staring. Here are the top sorority houses in America this semester. ...
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Next to Instagram, Tumblr is fabulous. You can get lost, scrolling for hours over beach landscapes, long-haired girl crushes, and tailgate style. If you’re a sorority, you know this, and you’ll have curated your Tumblr page to follow suit. ...
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Every PNM is looking for a strong sisterhood, good reputation, and of course…a beautiful sorority house to call home for the rest of their college career. Every semester we list the top sorority houses in the US. Click here to check out The 10 Best Sorority Houses In America - Spring 2017. Here are the rankings for Fall 2017. ...
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GreekRank values the following categories: Looks, Popularity, Classiness, Campus Involvement, Social Life, Sisterhood. A well-balanced sorority chapter should be equally succeeding in all these categories. We took a look at our own rankings, also considering academics, and then dived further into studying specific chapters to determine which 8 chapters are some of the most well-balanced across a country. Here’s who we strongly feel deserves to be on the list....
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Greek across the country are tackling big problems. Greeks understand that you can have fun while working toward a worthy cause. This month's top philanthropy events raised awareness and funding for serious issues that sometimes go overlooked by the rest of society. We are very proud in the work done this month by Greeks across the country. Keep up the good work....
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You have made one of the biggest decisions of your life to go to college. Congratulations! However, that’s not the only decision that you’ll have to make when it comes to college life. Another important decision that you’ll probably make is the decision to go Greek in college.
Greek life has lots of benefits to offer to its members – opportunities to build a network, social/community activities to participate in, a strong brotherhood bond to maintain, and many more! However, one of the biggest challenges college guys face at the beginning of their Greek life is choosing the right fraternity for themselves....
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Every chapter has that one event where, if you skip it, the older brothers give you a look. Not an angry look - just a disappointed one. Like you just said you've never seen The Godfather. For us, that event was Founders Day. Not the formal. Not homecoming. Not even our date party at the lake house that one spring where things got genuinely legendary. Founders Day. And for a long time, I didn't really get why.
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Xavier University just announced it's welcoming three new Greek chapters to campus, and the reaction from most Greek life observers is going to be some version of "great, more chapters." But I think that response misses the more interesting question. Not whether expansion is happening - it clearly is - but what Xavier is actually setting these new chapters up for, and whether anyone there has thought seriously about what comes next.
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Penn State just announced a new wrinkle in how fraternity and sorority recruitment is going to work - a delayed fall option that gives incoming students more time before they commit to a chapter. And my first reaction, honestly, was somewhere between skeptical and genuinely curious. Because I've seen recruitment done in a way that felt more like a speed-dating cattle call than a real process for finding your people. If Penn State is trying to fix that, I'm at least willing to hear it out.
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Every few months, some op-ed runs with a headline about the death of Greek life. A chapter gets suspended somewhere, enrollment drops at one school, and suddenly everyone's ready to write the obituary. I've been sitting in Panhellenic meetings for three years listening to that same panic, and I'm done with it. Greek life isn't dying. It's restructuring, and if you actually look at what's happening on the ground, the evidence is pretty clear.
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