Georgia Southern just swept a bunch of Greek life recognition awards, and honestly, most people outside the Southeast are probably sleeping on how significant that is. We're not talking about a participation trophy situation here. When a university's Greek community dominates at that level, it usually reflects something structural - something the chapters have been building quietly for years while other schools were busy fighting about whether Greek life should exist at all.
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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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Over the last couple weeks we’ve put the spotlight on the most adorable pledge classes of the West and Midwest. I don’t want to call it now… but it looks like once again the south has delivered the cutest new member classes in the country. Check out these true southern belles in the next installment of this series and you be the judge of which region is killing the sorority game this fall!...
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Last week, I got coffee with one of my friends from home, who also went Greek. As we shared lattes and stories about what classes we miraculously passed and which fraternities we borrowed composites from, she flipped through the pages of a People magazine next to us and sighed, “Man, I wish fraternity guys at our schools looked more like celebs, you know?” Apparently, a solid amount of Hollywood A-listers are Greek and proud to wear their letters....
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Sorority house? More like Sorority Mansion. The house is the home base and public face of a sorority. It can portray how established, classy, and influential they are. These 10 beautiful houses definitely made their statement...
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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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There's something about the University of Alabama's sorority recruitment that just hits different from anywhere else in the country. Every single year, without fail, you see the stories pop up - thousands of potential new members, houses that look like wedding venues, and a process so organized it could make a logistics company jealous. WVUA 23 is reporting that Alabama sororities are gearing up for another recruitment cycle, and honestly, watching this from the outside as an IFC guy, I have a lot of thoughts.
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I've sat through more Panhellenic council meetings than I can count, and if there's one thing I can tell you with full confidence, it's that the current sorority recruitment model is held together with duct tape and tradition. Not good tradition either. The kind of tradition that exists because nobody wanted to be the person who raised their hand and said this isn't working anymore.
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Everyone tells pledges the same thing: work hard, show up, be humble. And that advice isn't wrong exactly - it's just incomplete. Because there's a version of "being humble" that slowly turns you into someone who doesn't push back on anything, agrees with everyone, and spends an entire semester shrinking. That version doesn't make you a good pledge. It makes you invisible. And chapters don't actually respect invisible people.
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So apparently you can hire someone to coach you through sorority recruitment. Not a therapist, not a guidance counselor, not your mom who went through it herself decades ago - an actual paid coach whose whole job is to help you get into a sorority. The Clarion-Ledger ran a piece on this recently, specifically about Mississippi, where recruitment anxiety has gotten so intense that a cottage industry of rush coaches has popped up to meet the demand. And my first reaction was to laugh. My second reaction was to think about it for five minutes and realize this was probably inevitable.<
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