No matter what your ranking is, or how many girls are in your sorority, every chapter has great girls involved. That being said, every year on every campus one can find a few sororities that every girl wants to join. These are the girls with the highest GPAs, strongest sisterhoods, highest fundraising goals, and overall best chapters around. These are the chapters with girls who will set the standards for Greek life at their universities. Here's a list of 10 of these chapters…... Read more

For well over 100 years cultural interest sororities have strengthened the sisterhood between girls from all different ethnic backgrounds. These are some of the most open and accepting Greek organizations found on our campuses. Let’s take a look at ten of the best of the cultural sororities across our great nation.... Read more

PNMs are constantly looking for ways to learn more about the sororities at their school, long before they actually begin the rush process. One of the most fun ways to do “research” on sororities is by checking out their tumblr pages. Sure- they don’t actually provide you with much information about the sorority , but they are cute and fun and definitely glamorous. However PNMS aren’t the only ones who love sorority tumblrs, sorority girls themselves love the feeling of being featured on their chapter’s page!... Read more

Ah, sorority rush videos. This form of recruitment media looks to take the old adage ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ to new levels, conveying a whole sisterhood in just a few minutes. They are also capable of being massively cheesy and embarrassing. Rush videos are a chance to portray your sisterhood in any light you choose, and at many schools they make or break rush.... Read more

In the words of a friend of who is the alumnae/parent chair of her chapter, “Sometimes I honestly have more fun getting drinks with the alumna when they come to visit. It’s like drinking with ourselves, but from the future”. She’s not wrong- these women have already been in our positions, and emerged successful. And that’s exactly why it’s important to remember the women from our organizations that show us time and again that there are some things that only going Greek can prepare you for.... Read more

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.... Read more

When Greek life membership more than doubles at a university, you don't just shrug and move on. That's not a rounding error. That's not a fluke year. UA Little Rock's Greek system apparently did exactly that, and I think it deserves more than a feel-good headline and a pat on the back. ... Read more

I didn't go to my first real tailgate until I was a sophomore, and even then I showed up kind of skeptical. I'd spent my freshman year doing the GDI thing - watching football from dorms, maybe catching a game with friends who didn't care that much. When I finally got pulled into a full Greek row tailgate setup before a home game, I remember thinking: okay, this is actually something. Not because of the chaos or the crowd, but because there was clearly a tradition behind it. People knew what they were doing. They'd done this before, and their older brothers or sisters had done it before them, and it showed. ... Read more

Somewhere between orientation week and your first bid night, someone hands you an invisible spreadsheet. Nobody actually gives it to you - you just absorb it through the air like secondhand smoke. Suddenly you know which houses are "top tier," which ones are "mid," and which ones are apparently one bad semester away from losing their charter. I didn't make the rules. I just lived inside them for four years. ... Read more

There's a version of sorority recruitment that happens behind closed doors, in chapter rooms, with handshakes and rituals and real conversations. And then there's the version that went viral - the one with choreography, matching outfits, and production value that rivals a mid-budget music video. Jezebel ran a piece recently on the fast rise and murky future of viral sorority recruitment videos, and it got me thinking about something I don't think anyone in Greek life is being totally honest about. ... Read more

Three fraternities at the University of Arizona are now facing serious hazing allegations, according to reporting from KOLD News. I don't have every detail of what allegedly happened - the story is still developing and the specifics matter. But here's what I do know: the moment I read that headline, my first reaction wasn't shock. It was something closer to tired recognition. And I think that says more about the state of Greek life than any single incident does. ... Read more

Every fall, thousands of students sprint through recruitment trying to impress as many chapters as possible. They wear the outfits, memorize the talking points, smile through six-hour rotation days. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, they forget the only question that actually matters: does this place feel right for you? ... Read more

So Alma College just put out a story about how their fraternities and sororities are outperforming the general student population academically. And I know exactly what most people's first reaction is. Eye roll. Skepticism. Some version of "yeah right, those guys study." I get it. I lived it. But here's the thing - the data is real, and it's worth actually talking about instead of dismissing it like we always do. ... Read more

Nobody sat me down junior year and said, "Here's how Greek life will actually help your career." It just kind of happened, quietly, over time, in ways I didn't recognize until I was already out the other side. I joined Alpha Chi Omega for the sisterhood - full stop. But the professional network I stumbled into? That came from the fraternity guys across the hall at every study hall, every philanthropy event, every awkward co-ed service project. And I genuinely didn't see it coming. ... Read more

I've watched guys I considered some of the sharpest people in my pledge class fall behind academically by junior year. Not because they weren't capable. Because they let the chapter swallow their schedule whole. And I've also watched guys in the same house - same parties, same philanthropy weekends, same 6 a.m. brotherhood retreats - graduate in four years with solid GPAs and actual job offers lined up. The difference wasn't intelligence. It wasn't even discipline in the way people usually mean it. It was something more specific than that, and I didn't fully understand it until I was about six months out from graduation myself. ... Read more