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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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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The Big Ten consists of 14 schools that compete with one another in a large conference and all have impressive backgrounds. Each school has something they excel in or what they are most known for. It’s the first thing that pops into your head when you hear the school’s name....
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We are highlighting one quintessential sorority chapter or each state in our nation. We’ve already selected the chapters for the first 25 states. Here are numbers 26-50. These sororities are being recognized for their philanthropy work both on and off campus. Each chapter is a proud representation of their respective states....
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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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Nobody hands you a manual when you join a fraternity. You show up, you shake hands, you maybe embarrass yourself at a social event, and then slowly - over the course of months - you figure out that there's a whole second layer of rules running underneath everything. Unwritten ones. The kind that older members just kind of expect you to already know, and the kind that freshmen violate constantly without realizing it until someone pulls them aside.
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The University of Iowa is investigating multiple Greek chapters for potentially violating student organization policies. That's the headline. And if you've spent any real time inside Greek life, your first reaction probably wasn't shock - it was something closer to a tired, knowing exhale.
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Every August, Panhellenic councils across the country run the same choreographed production: structured rounds, timed conversations, strict silence periods, bid day theatrics. It works. It's also exhausting, politically messy, and frankly kind of broken in ways most councils won't admit out loud. I've sat in recruitment chair meetings where grown women cried over quota numbers. I've watched chapters get penalized for a single violation that another chapter committed twice without consequence. So when people ask me whether formal or informal recruitment is better, I never give them a clean answer - because there isn't one.
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The University of Alabama runs one of the biggest, most watched sorority recruitment processes in the entire country. Thousands of potential new members. Dozens of chapters. A week that can feel like a job interview, a beauty pageant, and a marathon all compressed into a few brutal days. A recent piece in The Tuscaloosa News leaned into just how intense that process is - and brought in an expert to offer advice to women going through it. I read it, and I had thoughts. A lot of them.
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There's a lawsuit making its way through the courts right now involving Central State University, an HBCU in Ohio, and the death of a student connected to underground hazing. The claim isn't just that hazing happened - it's that the university knew, or should have known, and didn't do enough to stop it. That distinction matters a lot. Because if you've spent any real time in Greek life, you understand the difference between official chapter activity and the stuff that happens completely off the books.
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