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

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 ... 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

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

When Greek life goes bonkers, and chapters from campuses in Arkansas to Syracuse start to make national and even international headlines for hazing allegations, sexual misconduct, racial slurs, and crimes against humanity, it’s time to look for the positive. Here’s our roundup of sorority and fraternity headlines that don’t make you wonder what happened to morality at some chapters, that remind you about the importance of philanthropy in Greek life, and now more than ever, appreciate Queen Bey. ... Read more

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. ... 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

Is your house chef still sticking to the same rotation of like 10 different meals that mostly remind you of grade school cafeteria food? Seriously, this article is just going to make you jealous. Some sorority chefs are offering their girls 5-star restaurant treatment. Let’s take a look at 7 of the nation’s top sorority house chefs who just might make the girls of their house long for their food over the food they grew up with at home.... Read more

Spring is right around the corner. Most schools that conduct formal recruitment during the spring semester have recently welcomed their new babies. Just as we have for the last several years, we’ve assembled the data to determine what sororities/fraternities are on top of the Greek rankings. We’ve had some shakeups in our rankings from last semester. Here are GreekRank’s Spring 2017’s top sororities and fraternities in the categories of Sisterhood/Brotherhood, Involvement, Classiness, Popularity, Looks, Fun, And Overall Highest Ranked... 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

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

Recruitment chairs are great at a lot of things. Remembering your name after meeting 200 guys in two days, cracking jokes that land at 10 a.m., making a house with peeling paint feel like the obvious choice. But breaking down the actual financial commitment? That part somehow always gets left out of the conversation. You find out the real number around week three of pledging, right after you've already told your parents you joined. ... Read more

Penn State just announced a new fall Greek life recruitment timeline option, and honestly, I've been thinking about it more than I expected to. Timeline changes sound like administrative housekeeping - the kind of thing that gets a paragraph in the student paper and then disappears. But this one actually touches something real about how recruitment works and who it ends up serving. ... Read more

Good Morning America ran a piece recently about how to survive sorority recruitment. Tips on what to wear, how to talk, how to present yourself. The kind of stuff that gets packaged as advice but really just teaches women to perform for a week and hope the right house picks them. I read it as an IFC guy who has watched rush from the other side of the fence, and honestly, something about the framing bothered me in a way I couldn't shake. ... Read more

Continuous open bidding gets sold as this flexible, low-pressure alternative to formal recruitment. Chapters that didn't hit their quota during fall rush, PNMs who missed the official process, everyone gets another shot. Sounds reasonable on paper. But after sitting through more Panhellenic council meetings than I can count, I can tell you that COB is one of the most mismanaged tools in the Greek governance playbook - and almost nobody talks about why. ... Read more