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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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...
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Philanthropy events are a staple of Greek Life. It’s difficult to go a whole week on a college campus without being exposed to Greeks working hard to raise money and awareness to charitable causes. Here’s a list of the top 10 philanthropy events from the 2015-2016 school year....
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With the fall semester coming to an end, the stress of finals is getting to every college student. The libraries are overflowing and the coffee just isn’t helping you stay awake anymore. The only good part about the end of a semester? Semiformal. A time to get dressed up, grab a date and take your mind off of school for a night. Take a look at the best-dressed sororities and fraternities that have already enjoyed their semiformal this semester....
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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 specific kind of clarity that hits somewhere between your cap-and-gown photos and the first time you watch your former chapter post recruitment content on Instagram without you in it. You're not sad exactly. You're just... aware. And you start noticing all the things you spent four years getting completely wrong.
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Nobody told me that pledging a fraternity would also mean pledging my calendar. Fall semester of freshman year, I thought I had it figured out - class in the morning, chapter stuff in the evenings, weekends to myself. Then philanthropy weekend hit, homecoming planning started, formal prep began, and I looked up one day in October wondering how I was already behind in three classes. Picking a major inside Greek life isn't just about what you're passionate about. It's about what you can actually sustain when your chapter has a full social calendar and expects you to show up for all of it.
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When news breaks about a fraternity member dying, the first thing most people do is scroll past it, chalk it up to "Greek life being Greek life," and move on. I'm not doing that this time. A Michigan State University fraternity member died, and the Greek life community there is reacting - some with grief, some with calls for change, and some probably just hoping the news cycle moves fast. It deserves more than that.
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I didn't join my fraternity until sophomore year, which meant I spent a full year watching Greek life from the outside. I went to a couple of open events, heard the mixed reviews from my floor, and mostly stayed skeptical. When I finally did join, one of the first things I noticed wasn't the brotherhood stuff people always talk about - it was how much one person's job affected the entire chapter's experience. The social chair. And I mean that in both directions.
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MSU just canceled fraternity recruitment activities following the death of a chapter member. That's the headline. And if you've ever sat on a Panhellenic or IFC council and watched a recruitment freeze play out in real time, you know that sentence contains about a hundred smaller disasters that nobody in the press release bothers to explain.
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