Nobody ever explained to me why my fraternity was called what it was. Like, I knew the letters, I wore the letters, I had the letters embroidered on approximately seven hoodies. But the actual reason those specific Greek characters got slapped onto our house? Total mystery. Turns out there's a whole history behind this stuff, and it's way more interesting than the two-minute spiel you get during rush week. ... Read more

When guys start looking into Greek life, they usually stumble into the same confusion. There's the fraternities on the main row, the ones with the big houses and the formal recruitment, and then there's everything else. The "everything else" is where it gets interesting - and where most people have no idea what they're actually looking at. ... Read more

There's a version of sorority life that gets shown to the world - the matching recruitment outfits, the philanthropy totals, the GPA announcements. And then there's the version that lives inside chapter walls, the one that Stanford women are apparently starting to talk about out loud. A recent piece in The Stanford Daily pulled back the curtain on what sorority membership actually looks like at one of the most selective universities in the country, and honestly, it's not that surprising - but it still needs to be said. ... Read more

Everyone's got a theory about what happens when the doors close at a sorority chapter meeting. Most of those theories are wrong. Not in a dramatic way - just in the way that outsiders always fill in blanks with whatever makes the best story. Having spent years around Greek life from the IFC side, watching how chapters actually function when they think nobody's paying attention, I can tell you the real version is both more mundane and more meaningful than anything people assume. ... Read more

I've spent more time in sorority houses than most IFC guys would admit. Between philanthropy events, study sessions that spilled over into someone's chapter room, and the times my little dragged me to something at her girlfriend's house in Delta Delta Delta, I've seen enough to have a real opinion. And what I've seen is genuinely interesting - not what you'd expect from the outside. ... Read more

Becoming part of a sorority is a typical aspect of college life for so many students. It’s also common knowledge that sorority life can get pretty extravagant – living in grand mansions, enjoying fine food, and going all Greek with your best sorority friends. Indeed, sorority life is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that every college girl should have. If you are looking for a sorority house this year and aren’t sure which one will be best for you, this is the perfect guide for you. ... Read more

Glamour and glitz galore!  Us girls want to do it right the first time every time and Greek Rank is here to help with our top picks for the top 3 most fabulous insta accounts to follow during this fall’s rush season.  Stay tuned and you’re sure to find yourself green with envy!... Read more

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.... Read more

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.... Read more

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.... 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

If you're a freshman girl who just heard the word "recruitment" for the first time and your only reference point is TikTok montages of girls crying and jumping up and down in matching outfits - you are not alone, and you are also working with incomplete information. Panhellenic formal recruitment is one of the strangest, most structured, most genuinely meaningful processes on a college campus, and almost nobody explains it to you before you're already in it. ... Read more

Award ceremonies in Greek life get dismissed a lot. I get it - they can feel like a participation trophy situation where every chapter gets a plaque and everyone goes home feeling validated without anything actually changing. But the Ritter Awards at Mississippi State University are worth paying attention to, and not just because MSU's Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life put out a press release about it. ... 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