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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With the new school year quickly approaching, many incoming college students are starting to think about Greek Life for a multitude of reasons. Potential new members across the country will rush sororities as soon as this coming August. If philanthropy is a big part of why you’re looking to pledge, check out these sorority chapters and the events they hold to benefit the charities of their choosing before rushing to “rush.”...
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We are highlighting one quintessential sorority chapter or each state in our nation. We’ve already selected the chapters for the first 25 states. Here are numbers 26-50. These sororities are being recognized for their philanthropy work both on and off campus. Each chapter is a proud representation of their respective states....
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Greek involvement can provide an enriching college experience for many students. Although Greek life has a dominant presence in the south that often times overshadows the Greek communities in other parts of the country, there are many outstanding chapters located in other regions of the United States. Each of these have their own special qualities that make them some of the top houses in the nation. This list was compiled to showcase some of the amazing sororities hailing from the PAC 12 universities....
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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 house a few blocks off campus that everyone knows belongs to a fraternity. No letters on the door, no official affiliation listed anywhere, but you'll see the same guys coming and going every weekend, same flag in the window, same cargo shorts army assembled on the porch. Everybody knows. Nobody says anything. And according to a recent piece from Mustang News at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, this is basically a structured system at this point - fraternities operating what neighbors and locals are calling illegal satellite houses, quietly, in plain sight.
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Before I joined a fraternity, I spent my freshman year watching Greek life from the outside. And what I saw was mostly a feed of professionally lit group photos, matching outfits, philanthropic highlight reels, and captions about brotherhood and sisterhood that read like they were drafted by a PR team. It looked polished. Almost too polished. Which, honestly, was part of why I stayed skeptical for so long.
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The University of Houston just wrapped Greek Week, and the coverage coming out of it is exactly the kind of thing that makes Panhellenic people like me feel two things at once - proud and a little skeptical. Proud because Greek Week, when it actually functions, is one of the best arguments for the whole system. Skeptical because I've sat in enough council meetings to know how much invisible labor goes into making something like that look seamless from the outside.
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A piece in The Miami Student recently made a point that sorority women have been making for years: stereotyping Greek organizations isn't some bold social commentary. It's just mean. And honestly, it's also kind of boring at this point.
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Formal recruitment hasn't changed in any meaningful way in over a decade. The format, the forced conversations, the scripted rounds, the way chapters get ranked and cut before anyone's had a real chance to connect - it's all running on the same logic it ran on in 2005. And nobody on Panhellenic wants to be the one to say it out loud because overhauling recruitment means stepping on a lot of toes. I'll say it.
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