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....
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GreekRank.com derives its rankings from user-submitted votes. The Princeton Review takes a similar approach -- let’s call it democratic -- by surveying students to develop their rankings for the colleges listed in their “Lots of Greek Life” list....
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As fall semester comes to a close, we look back at some of 2017’s best sorority recruitment videos. There was no shortage of primo slow-motion scenes, EDM and drone footage, but we’ve whittled down the list to these top 11 sorority recruitment videos that offer something more than the stereotype....
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With big little reveal approaching or already wrapped up, there is a lot of excitement on college campuses. Bigs have already started crafting and dreaming of the excitement on her little’s face when her family is revealed. However, littles are much more anxious, because they are new to sorority life and do not know what to expect....
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Fall recruitment is upon us. Think your sorority has a strong 2015 group of new members? Boy, from what we have seen, rush went very well for some west coast chapters. From Pullman, Washington to sunny SoCal, here is a list that puts the spotlight on some of the newest pledge classes who are making their chapters shine....
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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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Every recruitment cycle, Panhellenic councils across the country send out the same reminders. No contact with PNMs outside of official events. No social media DMs. No invitations to chapter houses during formal recruitment. No gifts. The rules exist in writing, they get reviewed at officer training, and chapters sign off on them every single year. And then recruitment starts, and some of those same chapters immediately start breaking them.
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A writer over at The Miami Hurricane just said what a lot of people in Greek life won't: she'd never go through sorority recruitment again. Not for anything. And honestly, reading that piece hit different than I expected, because she's not wrong about the hard parts - and I think guys in IFC spaces need to sit with that for a second instead of just scrolling past it.
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Every chapter has one. A handful of alumni who show up to meetings occasionally, send emails nobody reads, and get eye-rolled the second they leave the room. I was absolutely that active member who thought the advisory board was just a formality - a box the national organization made us check. And then I graduated, started watching from the outside, and realized we had no idea what we were throwing away.
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Nobody walks into a chapter meeting fired up about GPA plaques. I get it. You've got ritual, you've got brotherhood, you've got a hundred other things competing for your attention. But I've watched chapters let their academic standing slide for years running, brush it off as a non-issue, and then act surprised when the university starts breathing down their necks. The award thing isn't just a plaque. It's a signal - and right now, a lot of chapters are sending the wrong one.
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