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<p>I went to a rooms party there last year which was pretty good.</p>
<p>Anyway take the following with a grain of salt as I’m really only familiar with my fraternities rush process, but here are my general thoughts on some things that have come up during this topic. </p>
<p>Some of the fraternities on campus will already have everyone or nearly everyone they are giving bids too already picked out before rush week, and it would probably be a waste of your time going to their rush events unless you have some specific in or are amazingly awesome. </p>
<p>However this is not the case for every fraternity, though most fraternities will probably have some idea of a lot of the people they are giving bids to, most will not already have decided exactly 100% who the entire list is. Fraternities generally give bids to people they like and connect with, and while this is harder if you are meeting them for the first time during rush week, it is certainly not impossible. Out of the 44 fraternities there are plenty that would bid someone they hadn’t met before rush week, but really liked whenever they interacted with them during rush week.</p>
<p>You should probably go to as many smokers as possible especially during the first few days to maximize the amount of places you see. See which places you connect with people the most and go their night events. Also going to multiple night events the first few nights would probably be good too.</p>
<p>In case you don’t know here’s a general overview of rush week, assuming its the same as last year. During the day there are things called smokers. All fraternities are open during this period and will have food. Rushes come by, talk to brothers, get a tour of the house, etc. These are generally dry. The campus is split up into north and west. North fraternities have smokers for 3 hours, then west campus fraternities or the other way around. It switches each day whose first. At night every fraternity throws some sort of event, almost always with plenty of alcohol, usually some sort of party. Each fraternity will probably hand out a card with a list/schedule of their night events at their smokers. Most of the events are open, though some are invite only, especially towards the end of the week. On certain days, before these events, there’s also something called contacts. This happens 2 or 3 times I forget which but think its 3. The fraternities send people to rushes rooms to talk to them. On the first contacts, most places generally just tell all the people who have come by that they like to keep coming back, etc, and maybe tell people they don’t like not to come back. At further contacts they’ve narrowed it down some and will tell the people they are no longer interested in/that didn’t make the cut to stop coming, try to revive interest in people they liked a lot that they haven’t seen since earlier in the week, have longer conversations with people they are about to bid about stuff, etc.</p>