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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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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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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There's a recruitment consultant out of Atlanta named Trisha Addicks who just published a book aimed at helping young women find confidence going into sorority recruitment. Atlanta Magazine covered it recently, and when I saw the headline I had two reactions at the same time - impressed, and a little uneasy. Not because what she's doing is wrong. But because it says something pretty loud about where Greek recruitment has gone.
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