It’s spring semester! You’re nearing finals, more focused on beach week, and lining up internships for summer break. At GreekRank, we’re pulling rankings for the top sororities and fraternities in the country. ... Read more

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. ... Read more

Recruitment season for most schools is in the rearview mirror. Bids have been extended to and accepted by thousands of new members across the country. Just like a bride on her wedding day, there are few days in a girls life when she glows as much as she does on bid day. It is now time for chapters to flaunt the new adorable additions to their houses. Just like we did in the spring, here is a list of the 10 cutest sororoity pledge classes in the nation for Fall Semester 2017.... Read more

Summer is almost over. Wow that went quick. Potential new members are doing all the research they can ahead of recruitment to make sure they get into one of their top houses. For the last several years we have put together the GreekRank rankings of the best fraternities and sororities in the country in the in each of our categories. Here are GreekRank’s Fall 2017’s top sororities and fraternities in the categories of Sisterhood/Brotherhood, Involvement, Classiness, Popularity, Looks, Fun, And Overall Highest Ranked... Read more

There are very few events more exciting in the history of a specific sorority chapter than when they break ground on a new house. These buildings will serve as the home-away-from home for generations of sisters to come and the current sisters will be the first ones to break it in. Here are five very exciting construction projects currently underway across the country.... Read more

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.... Read more

Sorority women of America! We’ve seen a lot of Tumblr pages over the years and we’re seeing an alarming trend. Take an honest look at your chapter’s Tumblr game. Do you see almost all photos of your sisters at the beach, fake posing, and just overall auditioning to be Calvin Klein models? If so, step up your game. Stop perpetuating the stereotypes and start showing more real sorority life. It’s okay, you can fix this. Here are 10 types of photos your chapter should start posting.... Read more

There at 26 Panhellenic sorority members. Each of them have an official unique color or color combination. After asking myself “which sorority has the best colors”, I realized that these preferences would be very subjective. No surprise there. Yet, what I was able to do is list the first thing that comes to mind when I look at a sororities colors.... Read more

We've already covered our list of the top 10 Cutest Pledge Classes In The South, now it's time to check out the cutest from up north. Although a lot of northern schools wait to do their formal recruitment in the spring, we've still compiled a list of some absolutely adorable new members. Let’s take a look at 10 northern sorority chapters who should be extra excited after pulling in some of the cutest pledges of the North's fall 2016 recruitment season.... Read more

Sororities pride themselves on displays of unity, creativity, and unforgettable memories. There is no better day of the year than bid day to for a chapter to put on a show that meets all three of those criteria. We already shared our list of the 10 Southern Chapters That Won Bid Day – Fall 2016. Here’s a list of 10 sorority chapters up north who won bid day Fall 2016 by going the extra mile to make it a special day for their new members, celebrating unparalleled sisterhoods, having the time of their lives, being comfortable in their own skin, and taking the best pics.... 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

Florida State University quietly did something that most schools haven't bothered to do: they built a dedicated wellness center with a specific focus on Greek life. Not a general student health office with a pamphlet rack. An actual resource centered on the particular pressures and dynamics that come with being in a fraternity or sorority. And honestly, my first reaction was - why did it take this long? ... Read more

Nobody hands you a rulebook at bid day. You get a bid card, maybe a t-shirt, and a handshake from guys who are now somehow your brothers. What you don't get is any kind of honest breakdown of how things actually work - the unwritten stuff that takes most freshmen a full semester to figure out, usually by messing it up first. I was one of those freshmen. Took me until second semester to stop embarrassing myself at philanthropy events alone. ... Read more

The Kenyon Collegian just published a recruitment guide aimed at incoming sorority hopefuls, and honestly, reading through it hit different than I expected. I came in ready to roll my eyes - IFC guy, fraternity loyalist, guy who thinks most Greek life coverage misses the actual point. But there was something in the spirit of that piece that I genuinely respected. And then there were parts that made me want to write this. ... Read more

Recruitment looks polished from the outside. The matching outfits, the rehearsed conversations, the Pinterest-worthy bid day photos. But I spent two years on Panhellenic council watching the whole machine run, and I can tell you there's a lot happening during rush week that potential new members never see - and that some chapters are counting on you not to notice. ... Read more