<p>Hey all, I’m transferring from Ole Miss in the spring and I’m still a freshman. I was wondering if anyone had any information on spring rush. I know greek is HUGE at Ole Miss and I’m sure it is just as big at Auburn. Anyone have an insight? I’m from Georgia and don’t know anyone at Auburn, but I figure rushing might be the best way to do so? Thanks</p>
<p>You are likely to get clearer answers if you state whether you are male or female. </p>
<p>At Auburn, fraternities have houses, but sororities do not - although they have chapter rooms and rooms for about 1/4 of their members in dorms.</p>
<p>I am familiar with Auburn over the course of more than 50 years. There is not a deep divide between Greek and non-Greek as there is at many schools.</p>
<p>Unless something changes this year, there will not be a formal sorority rush until next fall. There will be some sororities that will be giving bids.</p>
<p>Granny, My daughter will be a freshmen at Auburn next fall, accepted into the pre-Chemical Engineering Program. I know very little about sororities but she really wants to rush. Can you tell me if they are more about doing good in the community and forming friendships without lots of alcohol or doing good and partying a lot? She is not a party girl and I don’t think that will change in college (hope not anyway). She’s pretty, smart, into fitness, but a bit on the quiet side and has never been (like my older daughter) surrounded by ten girls all of the time. I think that the right sorority could be a great thing to help her to come out of her shell a bit. Do you know if they are expensive? Out of state tuition is going to thin out our finances! We live in Florida and my older daughter is in a sorority at FSU. Younger daughter does not want the same type of sorority social life that older daughter does. Older daughter is Chemical Engineering too and doing well but manages to get her party time in. I’ve not visited Auburn yet but my husband has with Becca. I’m eager to visit and check it all out. Your thoughts would be so very appreciated. Becca isn’t so quiet that she wouldn’t get through rush week well but, left on her own, she’s apt to not meet so many girls and get involved. Thanks!</p>
<p>My daughter is a freshman at Auburn and in a sorority. This time last year I would have never thought that she would join a sorority, but she did and she loves it. She found during rush that many of the sororities have reputations which tended to be true, once she met different members. Like all groups, some party more than others and my daughter was able to differentiate between the heavy party groups and the not-heavy party groups pretty easily.</p>
<p>Many of her sorority sisters do not drink at all and others like her have had a little taste of this and a little taste of that, but consider themselves to be non-drinkers. My daughter says that the drinking is really heavy in the fraternities and she “lovingly” refers to the freshmen pledges as drunk pigs.</p>
<p>YOu should go to a website called greek chat. You’ll get lots of information about it there.</p>
<p>Good information - likely will be good news for Becca. That is, that it’s possible to figure out, through rush week, which sororities party heavily and which do not. “Drunk Pigs” sounds like a term from the movie “Animal House” and I think that it’s true at my other daughter’s school too! It’ll be interesting, in a year, to see if Becca is in a sorority and which one it is. Thanks and glad that your daughter is happy!</p>
<p>In addition to getting a feel through Greek Chat, I would suggest that you go through the sororities’ web sites (see Panhellenic <sp?>, then the sororities under auburn.edu A-Z). You will get some feel for the diversity within sororities. My grands are in sororities and I think it has worked well. My D was not, but she was very busy as a varsity jock I was, but not at Auburn, and would be again.</sp?></p>
<p>oops, I’m a guy. Looking to spring rush a fraternity. And greek divide is HUGE here, it’s pretty sad actually.</p>
<p>Our daughter will be a freshman next year. Majoring in public relations but starting with some classes under her belt due to AP. I think this will help with rushing because her load while she is a pledge won’t be as bad. She has started lining up her letters of recommendation and tends to eyeball and listen to the different houses while there for football games and the other times we’ve been there. She’s started noting who’s lewd, who’s loose and who just seems to fit her style better. She’s excited to rush and looks forward to the experience.</p>
<p>There seems to be a lot of opinion here that each sorority does something: “this sorority parties a lot,” “this sorority studies a lot.” </p>
<p>Truth is, no sorority is all or nothing. Each sorority has some members who maximize their social opportunities (!!) AND some who are more serious about their grades AND some who are thinking ahead to jobs AND some who are there for their MRS degrees. And even among sororities, a group’s campus reputation can change in a semester or two. Auburn especially is pretty good about not locking groups into sterotypes, much better than UA.</p>
<p>The OP obviously needs some feedback from a current student on the fraternity situation at Auburn, but, for what it’s worth, I don’t think there is nearly the same “divide” at Auburn that you may have witnessed at Ole Miss, or conspicuous pressure to enlist in the ranks of greek life . This may be due to the older, and very strong fraternity tradition at Ole Miss. There will be those that contend your social life may suffer at Auburn if you don’t join a fraternity, due to the limitations in the size of the town, housing problems, etc. However, during a campus visit, we talked to several male students at AU that said joining a greek organization was NOT the be-all, end-all solution to rowdy weekends and social acceptance.
You can have fun and make good friends (greek or not) if you work at it! Hopefully someone will chime in and give you some more definitive info.</p>
<p>First off I resent the Drunk pigs comment, as I am a freshman in a fraternity here at Auburn. The fraternities are great here but not nearly as dominant as they are at ole miss. The divide between the two groups, greek and non is not very big and I have several friends who aren’t greek. With sororities, it seems that there are so many groups in each of them that there is a variety of girls that you have girls who party and those who don’t. I would strongly recomend Auburn Greek life to any person coming here</p>
<p>I haven’t been on CC for a while but just read the latest comments and GAmomof2 gave me something to think about… My older daughter is at FSU where Rush Week actually takes place the week prior to the start of classes. FSU Housing works with it and the Rushees (?) can stay on campus. Thus, this very busy week is behind them once school actually starts. I’m now assuming that at Auburn, Rush is going on while classes are in session. Yikes! It must be manageable without crazy hours and all of that. I just assumed that it would be handled the same way that it is at FSU. Expectations of the Rushees can’t be crazy (as far as time goes) if classes are in session - another assumption, am I correct? My daughter also has a few classes under her belt but I still don’t want her to be thinking more about sororities than classes once the school year begins. BTW, we are headed to Auburn today for a day of activities tomorrow and I’m so very excited. It will be my first time visiting the campus. Yay! Or should I say “War Eagle!” Thanks for any info…</p>
<p>The Fall Formal Sorority Rush precedes the start of classes.</p>
<p>Granny, thanks for the great news on the timing of the Sorority Rush. I don’t know how freshmen girls can handle Rush Week with the first few weeks of college classes. Thankful to know that it won’t be an issue at Auburn.</p>
<p>Smilemaker, I’d like to also note that Auburn sororities do not have houses. They have chapter rooms in the Greek dorms, and each sorority has a floor that mostly sophomores and certain officers live on.
Because they are not supporting houses, the membership cost is a good bit less than at colleges where sororities are having to pay a mortgage, run a kitchen, pay a housemother etc.</p>