phi mu and alpha chi

Get two really, really strong recs for both. Preferably in-house alums or people that are still involved in PM/AXO's leadership in an alum capacity. Both of these houses tend to give bids to strong PNMs without connections, at least more than the rest of old row.

However, don't get your sights set on two. Every house is awesome and the qualities that you like at PM and AXO can surely be found in other houses. Make sure you get recs for them too!! Good luck!

You're in for a wake up call when you get to rush

try not to get your hopes set on one or two houses.. being bias could completely ruin your week if you end up getting cut. Phi Mu and axo are very competitive houses as well and will be desired by other pnms .

keep your mind open and try to find where YOU will fit in

You should present yourself in a first class manner. Will women in these sororities see your stalking them on instgram as classy?

Unfortunately, on GR, you have shown you are easily influenced by others opinions by already deciding you have favorites without meeting any of the 400 women in any of the houses. I recommend you join most other PMNs and go through recruitment with an open mind and make up your own mind. Many women choose a "bottom" house, which have as many members as top houses (basically all hit quota). For example, some continually bottom ranked sororities have consistent outstanding academic rankings, isn't that a worthy factor to consider? Some are pro-woman and choose not to belong to the machine, lots of PMNs like that factor. Some of the worst houses raise tons of money for great causes, another reason to look closer at each house. All have swaps, formals, and sisterhood events... what would you be missing out on if you considered more that the top two strats ranked on GR.

You have an opportunity to meet lots of great women... don't rule them out before meeting them. Belonging to any house would be great! Need to tear up your "favorite" list!

Honestly— they don’t like to be hunted. They like to hunt. So you need to just be yourself, have awesome social al media game and get any kind of connection informed you are baba bound. Let them discover you some how

haha good luck with that. those are two of the most competitive houses and are on the list of top two or three houses for most pnms that are not already locked in somewhere else based on hometown considerations (like kd for mobile, tridelt for mb, etc.)

While I agree with not pre-deciding what houses you want and falling in love with houses when you don't know anyone, you can't tell people not to have favorites. They are excited. They are gonna research and try to see what the houses are like. And if they decide that AXO and Phi Mu are their favorites for now, then that's fine. It doesn't really matter. What matters is that when rush actually comes along that they give every house a shot and they see what houses they actually feel at home in now that they aren't just seeing them on social media.

If you didn't have favorites before you went through rush, then you are part of the minority. Most people have a few houses that they are interested in the most before rush and it often changes during rush.

Our responses to her should be actually answering her question, and then reminding her:
1. to keep an open mind and that she doesn't know anyone in the houses yet so everything she's seen, heard, or read is superficial and might not be true. Take everything with a grain of salt.
2. That all our houses are great, and when she goes through rush she needs to forget her favorites, have an open mind, and give everyone a chance. Opinions can drastically change when you actually talk to girls and see everything during rush.
3. Not to talk about her pre-determined favorites with other people because she doesn't know who they will tell or how she will actually feel during rush.
4. Not to get her hopes up about any house because we never know what might happen.
5. to not think about what houses are "good" or stereotypes of houses but actually look for what girls you have the best conversations with and what house you feel the most comfortable in.
6. to remember to treat every house equally and not act more interested at one house than the other because girls in different sororities talk to each other.

Lets be helpful and use this website to answer girls questions to help them through rush, and not treat them like crap for asking a normal question. That doesn't show a good side of our greek life and it makes us look rude and unwelcoming.

Just know Phi Mu and Alpha Chi are going to be the top of most PNMS lists as well....

you sound like a complete douche. Enjoy being a Sigma Kappa.

You don’t chose Phi Mu and Alpha Chi they chose YOU.