<p>My daughter will be rushing at UT. What are the top sororities to get into? Does she need a recommendation? What are her chances of getting in? How expensive is it? Thank you.</p>
<p>Is she white, asian, black, hispanic? Does she want to be in a social/multicultural/academic sorority? You need to give us more details.</p>
<p>There will be TONS of frats/sororities tabling all over campus during the first few weeks of school so she can look around then.</p>
<p>This might help
<a href=“http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/glie/join_upc_faq.php[/url]”>http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/glie/join_upc_faq.php</a></p>
<p>This thread from June might have some information that would be helpful to your daughter.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/939029-sororities.html?highlight=sororities[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-texas-austin/939029-sororities.html?highlight=sororities</a>
People who know about this have posted here before that greekchat.com is a good source for information on rushing sororities at UT. (If you or your daughter post on there, be very careful not to post anything that would identify you or her.)</p>
<p>I’m assuming by this point your daughter is already going through rush (such a fun time…). But, for you to know, there is the “Big 6” of the sororities, which are the top 6 (obviously) out of the 14. This ranking is mostly ********… it is based off of a superficial scale, I’ve found. All 14 of the UPC sororities have something different to offer the girls- they each offer sisterhood and friendship, but some are focused more on partying, some on studying, and some on philanthropy. </p>
<p>What I really hope you can remember is it is all about 1. which sororities decide they like your daughter (and if none offer her a bid for some reason, there is one more PanHellenic sorority that doesn’t go through formal rush that she can go for instead, as well as many non-upc sororities or spirit groups) and 2. It is all about where your daughter feels most comfortable. A sorority becomes your family, so if your daughter is happiest with one of the “lesser” (if possible) sororities be accepting and excited for her. After all, it’s her experience. Not yours.</p>
<p>Today I learned from the mom of an upperclassmen sorority member that 950 women were registered to rush for 650 positions this year, so 300 would not receive bids. When I asked why they couldn’t create more open positions (I don’t know much about the Greek system), she said each sorority’s national chapter has a limit on how many new members it can accept each fall. </p>
<p>Cutting 300 though?!? Brutal. What a way to start one’s first year of college.</p>
<p>Wow, that is tough. I’ll never forget the girls who didn’t receive a bid when we were freshmen. A couple of them from my dorm actually dropped out of college! I couldn’t believe it. My roommate was in Chi Omega - it was interesting to watch all the hoops she had to through while she was pledging. Poor girl - she tried to “make me over,” but it didn’t take.</p>
<p>I know it doesn’t work out exactly mathematically, since they factor the choices in. I imagine that eventually one could find out how many started rush and how many ended up with bids? Or is that a secret? I think this has got to be a record year for aspiring sorority members getting cut.</p>
<p>"Today I learned from the mom of an upperclassmen sorority member that 950 women were registered to rush for 650 positions this year, so 300 would not receive bids. When I asked why they couldn’t create more open positions (I don’t know much about the Greek system), she said each sorority’s national chapter has a limit on how many new members it can accept each fall. </p>
<p>Cutting 300 though?!? Brutal. What a way to start one’s first year of college."</p>
<p>That’s not true at all. All women who go through recruitment have a chance at a bid, there is no arbitrary total set (by UT or by nationals) before recruitment starts.</p>
<p>“That’s not true at all. All women who go through recruitment have a chance at a bid, there is no arbitrary total set (by UT or by nationals) before recruitment starts.”</p>
<p>Morgan74, yes, there is a total set by UT. Each sorority has a quota of how many girls they can accept each year depending on how many girls are going through recruitment. Usually at UT, the quota is around 55-60.</p>
<p>Every girl starts out with an equal chance at a bid, but not all girls make it to Pref night which means they do not receive bids.</p>
<p>Does anyone have a general assesment of how Rush went overall this year? My D is applying to UT (HS Class of 2011) and if she decides to go, she will want to rush, as a greek system is on her college shopping list. I would just hate it if her first experience at any school was so negative. I guess I am pretty naive to ask this…but what exactly are they looking for?</p>
<p>I don’t mean to be stereotypical or anything, but I think I saw some sort of rush event while I was walking on campus a couple days ago. From what I saw, it was a whole ton of girls all dressed up, trying to look as pretty as possible, and shoving each other to get into the auditorium. The whole thing looked very superficial to me. :|</p>
<p>The UT police were called to two different dorms earlier this week, because two girls going through rush had gotten horribly drunk and their roommates were worried about them. One girl was just vomiting, but the other was unresponsive. Yikes! Those were the only two incidents reported involving drunkenness.</p>
<p>Haha, I hope there’s a decent benefit to all of this. Otherwise, what a waste of time.</p>
<p>MaineLH, I read the same two reports, and forwarded one of them to DD who lives on campus (the one about the girl foaming at the mouth.)</p>
<p>Fortunately D hasn’t given us any problems in that department, but I thought it was quite a testament to the roommates who called for help. What a scary situation.</p>
<p>Interesting that they would choose to include in campus watch that the nameless perpetrators were pledging a sorority. I’ve never seen them ever include information about what student organizations a student was in. I wonder if they ask everyone who they give a PI whether they’re in UDems, Iron Spikes, Band, etc.</p>
<p>My D rushed and it was quite possibly the most stressful thing our family has been through to this point. I had been told that it is all about who you know in the houses because you need people to pull for you or you don’t stand a chance… unfortunatly my D’s high school is very under-represented in the Greek system so she only knew girls in about 3 houses. She did end up with a bid and I think she can be happy with it…it was not her first choice. Time will tell…</p>
<p>I also read the Campus Police Blotter and was horrified after reading about the two pledges…this is very disappointing that this kind of behavior goes on right off the bat…I am impressed that the roomates called the police…I am just wondering how many other kids were in the same condition and thier roomates did not call the police…</p>
<p>My daughter went through UT rush this year as well. It’s a six day event in a pressure cooker environment. I mean that both mentally and physically. The temperature reached 105 everyday. Tensions ran higher. Tent talk escalated more and more each round. Wonderful girls were released from the system everyday. </p>
<p>My daughter rode the emotional roller coaster up and down, as did most all of the girls. She was able to hold on to her legacy house to the end and received a bid. Her rec writers were amazing!</p>
<p>Congratulations to your daughters!</p>
<p>That is what I have heard about it all. Boy what a way to start college. Are either one of your girls staying in SRD? And if yes, were they able to stay there during rush or are the girls house in Jester or some other dorm?</p>
<p>They live in the dorm that they will live in for the year.</p>