greek chic questions

don't worry about the other ones, you will only be rushing the main 16 sororities. you go to all 16 houses between the first two days. then philanthropy round, you can have up to 12 houses. sisterhood is up to 8. then pref is up to 3. usually you will not have the max amount of houses for a round so do not feel bad about it! a lot of times girls will have like 9 houses when the max is 12. and the "magical computer" creates your schedule randomly for every round after the first one. so you could have all 8 on one day or they could be split. all depends but it's not your choice unforutanetly lol.

There are breaks between each house to get to the next house. Think of it like a block schedule for the first two rounds- either in block a or block b. With the next rounds, anything goes. Mine were spread out. I knew girls that had them all lumped together in one day. They didn't mind because then they had a day off. It just depends.

From out of state and knew I wanted to rush. I did get rec-letters from family friends and relatives as well as a few teachers. None knew anything about the chapters at Bama. I didn't really read up much either.

Here is what I can say from my experience.

I did have a great rush and got a house I really liked all along. My opinion would change at different rounds - they are quick visits, and it depends on who you talk to.

I did have a full card at every round, but from other pnms it seemed this isn't typical.

The rec letters definitely seemed to help, particularly at the better houses. I definitely did best at the top houses where I had recs.

All my pref houses were ones were someone wrote a rec. By philanthropy cuts - at least for the better houses - were houses where I didn't have a Rec.

It's confusing. The first two days I didn't really even know the Greek alphabet. Houses would run together and I would forget, and ask myself what one was the one where I talked to this Girl? That being said, it was easy to remember the favorites.

There was one house I really liked, but at sisterhood one of the members "assigned" to me, I just couldn't relate to. I tried my best but just couldn't connect with her. I really liked the other girls in the earlier rounds and even other girls during sisterhood. But the one that spent the most time with me at sisterhood wasn't clicking - got dropped for pref.

Its a bit random on that regard.