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.
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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. ...
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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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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....
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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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The weather is still pretty chilly across most of the US. Good thing sorority girls across the country have their “homes away from homes” to offer them shelter from the cold. Some of these homes are classics and some are brand new. In the fall we ranked the 10 Best Sorority Houses in America of Fall 2016. Now it’s time for our Spring 2017 rankings of the best sorority houses in America....
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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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There's a piece in the Los Angeles Loyolan right now where a student reflects on doing sorority rush the wrong way the first time around. She went back. She figured it out. And honestly, reading that, I felt something - because the fraternity side of this story is basically identical, and nobody talks about it enough.
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Every chapter I've ever worked with during Panhellenic recruitment has the same problem. They spend three weeks before rush drilling members on talking points - hometown, major, favorite chapter event - and then they wonder why PNMs walk out of every house feeling like they just sat through the same interview twelve times. The script kills the conversation before it starts.
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I graduated in 2023 with 47 women I called sisters and about six I actually talk to now. That number used to embarrass me a little. Like maybe I'd done something wrong, or hadn't tried hard enough to stay connected. But I've stopped feeling bad about it. Because I think six real ones - after everything - is actually a lot.
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So Alpha Zeta had a fire. Fire departments responded, the house got damaged, and now everybody's doing that thing where they shake their heads and say something vague about fraternity houses being old. And look, I get it. But I want to push back on the idea that this is just some random unfortunate event. Because it's not. It's a pattern, and Greek life keeps treating it like a surprise every single time.
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