Before I joined a fraternity, I tailgated exactly twice in college - once for a homecoming game I barely cared about, and once because my roommate dragged me out at 9am on a Saturday. Both times I stood around feeling slightly out of place, like I'd wandered into someone else's tradition. Then I joined Sigma Alpha Epsilon the spring of my sophomore year, and honestly, the tailgate experience became a completely different thing. Not just because of the chapter, but because I finally had context for why these traditions exist and what makes some of them genuinely legendary.<
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Glistening chandeliers, all-brick exteriors, and mile-wide porches. Some of the most beautiful sorority houses in America are fit for royalty -- and we can't stop staring. Here are the top sorority houses in America this semester. ...
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Summer is almost over. Wow that went quick. Potential new members are doing all the research they can ahead of recruitment to make sure they get into one of their top houses. For the last several years we have put together the GreekRank rankings of the best fraternities and sororities in the country in the in each of our categories. Here are GreekRank’s Fall 2017’s top sororities and fraternities in the categories of Sisterhood/Brotherhood, Involvement, Classiness, Popularity, Looks, Fun, And Overall Highest Ranked...
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There is only 1 week left in the regular season for most college football programs. It’s been a very entertaining season considering, with the exception of Bama, every top 10 team has at least had one setback loss. Let’s take the time to put the spotlight on one chapter from each top ten school that showed up in a big way for their teams this college football season....
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The 96th Miss America pageant, will be held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Sunday, September 11, 2016. In total, there are 52 young women competing for the title of Miss America 2017. 17 of the 52 are currently or were recently active in a sorority. Let’s highlight the sisters who are representing their chapters on the grand stage....
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While it might all look like fun and games, working your way towards becoming a beautiful and unique sorority takes years of perseverance from dedicated members. It's time to spotlight many of these exceptional chapters who have remained somewhat under-the-radar nationwide despite continuous contributions to their universities and sisterhoods....
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While there are plenty of excellent colleges without much of a Greek Life, it’s important to acknowledge the positive influence that having a strong Greek Life presence on campus offers students. From the percentage of undergraduate students involved in Greek Life to the number of chapters on each campus, the following schools have risen above the rest. Checkout the following list of colleges across the country that offer the best Greek Life experiences by the numbers:...
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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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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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