rush competitiveness

I would recommend building up your involvement, maintaining the highest gpa you can and figuring out what values/philanthropies are most important to you. It is really who you know in some cases but being your best you doesn't hurt and if you trust the system you might find your new home.

Sorority rush process is one of the dumbest social recruitment infrastructure. It's not crazy competitive. Competitive is the wrong word.

It is crazy inefficient and does a terrible job at the inefficient evaluation process.

I agree. The girls try to claim it's "competitive". It is extremely inefficient to say the least.

Sororities are so fake during this process they will put their better looking girls in front.... and less attractive ones are in the back room;s.

Having been through rush, 3.5 years in a terrific sorority, and now out on the other side in the real world-- let me tell you that the real world is a lot like rush. You might only get 5 minutes with a potential boss who will pull you onto his/her team and fly you around the world doing cool consulting work. You might only get 5 minutes with a potential customer to convince them to buy your product. You might only get 5 minutes to testify before Congress to try to get funding for some issue that is important to you. Trust me, the world will be more fun and interesting for you if you can make a positive first impression with everyone you meet. I think the fact that most of the top leaders in the world (business, government, etc) were members of some sort of fraternal-like organization (fraternity, sorority, eating club, etc) is no coincidence.

I am in a top house that I knew zero people in, not common but I'm definitely not the only one and it does happen!

It's not that competitive, actually.