Fraternity Rush

<p>can anyone give a brief or long description of rush for guys. I know there are past threads but would like an updated version. Also which type of people rush each house?</p>

<p>People that rush usually plan to live that life for their college period. The real fraternities require that type of commitment and regardless of what is and isn’t legal, a type of initiation does still occur, behind closed doors at times. As for other factors, the fraternity sites usually aren’t very prominent for mature people, so it gives an indication of either social immaturity or intellectual immaturity, while stereotyping isn’t nice, they exist for a reason. In that sense, a fraternity can give a great network for career building, but it can also backfire on you if you can’t keep up or aren’t well liked.</p>

<p>Camaraderie is a big thing in fraternities, and you’ll likely be expected to join in on things you normally wouldn’t like to do.</p>

<p>^You are about to be absolutely ripped apart by people in Greek life. Oh my god you’re so wrong but I’ll just wait for maizeandblue or someone else to absolutely destroy every argument you just made.</p>

<p>Brief description of rush:

  1. Get to school, go to welcome week parties
  2. It may be good to do some research beforehand about which houses you may fit best in, there are a lot of threads on CC alone just search.
  3. Talk to rush chair/coordinator/ whatever his title is and get his number, chat up some of the brothers and get them to like you and get into the closed events
  4. Go to the invite-only events to your top 2/3 houses, keep meeting new people and doing your best to impress, hope for a bid
  5. Receive a bid or 2 or 3, accept the bid from your favorite house, start the pledging process (1 semester)</p>

<p>I’m actually not. And I have far too many people who were in fraternities that agree with that. And pretty much every fraternity social site disagrees with you. That pretty much means that it doesn’t matter what argument you come up with, it doesn’t qualify as a counter-point and I’ll sit with what I know by experience and my networks rather than someone who immediately tries to dismiss things with no logical point whatsoever.</p>

<p>A good analogy for what a fraternity is like would be some of the army social units, which again I have far too many networks that agree, they focus on camaraderie, involve a heavy basis of kudo points and social ranking, and are a fit or fail type community.</p>

<p>As for which type of people rush each house, you can find that in all the posts on here that describe houses. Not every guy in every house fits perfectly into that house’s stereotype, but the stereotypes are there for a reason. Also, don’t write off a house just because it’s small. Some of the houses are described as irrelevant on this site, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t the house for you. A lot of the smaller houses have better brotherhood and nicer guys. I know a lot of sorority girls who prefer hanging out with smaller frats because the guys are usually less ******y.</p>

<p>As the above posters mentioned find a house where you mesh with the current members, that is key.</p>

<p>Secondly, make sure where you end up pledging has a decent sized national presence. I joined a smaller fraternity at the national level and upon graduating the networking opportunities just weren’t there.</p>

<p>Palier, you make Greek Life sound like it’s some sort of taboo subject. It’s a institution that has been around for over a hundred years at most universities. Some of our greatest leaders were Greek… </p>

<p>If you’re not in Greek Life, don’t talk about it. Simple story. Even if you have friends who claim they know everything about it, they don’t. Going Greek at Michigan is an awesome experience that everyone should at least give a shot. If you actually went around to the houses, you’ll find that a majority of the people in Greek Life don’t fit your stereotype. </p>

<p>My recommendation for any freshman is to just try it out. If you don’t like it, drop. Simple as that.</p>