Rush for the “middle tier” sororities?
by: ARank doesn’t matter but for the sake of the title. How hard is it to rush Tri Delt, Chi O, and DG? How do they pick girls usually?
#1 by: Priorities
How they pick is most apparent in the first round where the chapters' priorities decide the pnm's they will carry to Philanthropy:
- Grades and involvement houses - DDD, XO, DG, AXO (you need a good GPA and resume to get past the first round and where you are from and who you know are not as important, these houses want quality members)
- Connections-only houses - PBP, KKG (if you aren't from certain high schools you won't be considered and they have the lowest grades and involvement but really don't care)
- Still building because they're new - ADPi (but still will not take just anybody for the sake of numbers, they will probably end up being one of the grades/involvement houses)
- There are no bottom houses here, and "mid" vs "top" is purely personal opinion based on how your priorities align with the chapters' priorities.
Don't get your sites set on any houses until you get your Philanthropy schedule back to see where you will actually be rushing in person. The in-person rounds are based on best fit with the vibe of the chapter and how your conversations go, as well as the way you present yourself in appearance and poise. All chapters have gorgeous fun girls.
Comment#2 by: GPA
What is a "good" GPA. The panhellenic guidebook lists the minimums for each house and they're all 3.0-3.3 (and it said the average GPA for PNMs last year was 3.4 - I'm assuming these are high school GPAs since recruitment is now in the fall). If you have over a 3.4 (and jobs, clubs, service in high school) will that put you in good standing or are those "grades/involvement" houses looking for higher GPAs like 3.7-3.8?
#5 by: Old
These responses are dated. Not correct at all. Pi Phi is not a connections only house anymore. They don’t even pull girls from Dallas. They take a lot of out of town girls and a fair amount of California girls. You do not need connections for this house. But you definitely need connections and they already know who is going to be on their bid list before recruitment begins.
by: ^Jul 23, 2025 10:13:57 PM
No, your definition of "connections" is dated. Connections doesn't mean local grandma and friends anymore, or even being from in state, it's about connections to members from their high schools. There are pnm's with chapter connections coming from Cali, Chicago, Atlanta, and Florida every year. Dallas is not the epicenter of rush like it used to be. There are known target schools for pnm's elsewhere now.
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by: ?Jul 24, 2025 3:48:19 AM
Can you still get into a sorority without connections? If you don’t have any, what should you do? Also why do houses have a list before rush if they still haven’t met a large majority of the girls yet?
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by: becauseJul 24, 2025 7:48:32 AM
Pnm's don't need connections to get a bid and every pnm has to register for recruitment and send in a bunch of information. The first round is based on that and how sororities make first releases before meeting pnm's.
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by: inside infoJul 24, 2025 9:49:20 AM
I know for a fact that girls from certain Atlanta private schools are going to be rushed hard by kappa and pi phi.
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by: Just stop itJul 25, 2025 11:50:55 AM
HAHAHAHAHA you can always tell the trolls who have never been through recruitment and don't have a clue, they just want to live on here to $hit talk. There are no drops on bid day, there is just bid matching after pref and no one is guaranteed their first choice. You rank your choices and you will get a bid to the one you match with.
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by: Just stop itJul 25, 2025 11:53:43 AM
Also pnm's don't 'drop' houses, they only rank them. Pnm's go back to as many chapters as possible and are given their schedule.
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by: GPA dependsJul 18, 2025 6:07:13 PM
It depends where you fall within the pool of the pnm's going through recruitment. If your GPA is substantially lower than the average then you would be at a disadvantage, so it just depends on what shows up this year. But any chapter will take a lower GPA than their 'minimum' if there is something else exceptional in a pnm to balance it out. A 3.4 with involvement should be just fine this year and give you choices for Philanthropy, and that's really the only time you need to worry about it. After that it's about the in-person rounds.
You also have to keep in mind that every chapter is given the number of pnm's they can invite back to each round by panhellenic. These numbers are based on percentages of the number of pnm's in the process and are adjusted at each round. The chapters rank their pnm's and then panhellenic assigns their number and the pnm's that are above that cutoff will be invited to the next round.
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