<p>I currently am at community college but am attending W&M in the spring. I will be a junior in the spring (in the fall I am considered a sophomore) and was wondering about rushing...</p>
<p>will I get made fun of for rushing since I'll be a junior? If i'm going to be made fun of for doing it since I'm older, then I won't even do it. But I am really interested and want to become part of a sorority</p>
<p>W & M has a formal fall recruitment (or rush). Several chapters may do an informal Spring recruitment, if they are eligible (which I think means if they have openings - some chapters do not have them in the spring).</p>
<p>There are people (at W & M and elsewhere) who will make fun of you for rushing at all - or for rushing in the spring, or for rushing as a junior, or for having the wrong car, or for having/not having a nose ring, or for being/not being a Dem/Republican, or for whatever you are that they aren’t and whatever you do that they don’t. Who needs them? I hope you won’t let the fact that some people are so smug and self-centered affect your activities and ambitions. </p>
<p>People at W & M have diverse opinions about Greek life - and everything else. Intelligent people don’t ridicule others just because their values differ - and a lot of intelligent people are at W & M. So I don’t think you’d find a large number of people who’d make fun of you for rushing as a junior. And if they do, screw’em. You’ll be at a great school, and you deserve to get the most out of it. Good luck.</p>
<p>To accompany Frazzled’s post, I believe close to half of those who rush, do not rush as freshmen so it’s not unusual to rush later on. Most of those who do not rush as freshmen likely rush as sophomores but there’s absolutely no bias towards any one particular class year.</p>
<p>I have a friend who rushed a fraternity fall of his senior year. I don’t think anyone will make fun of you for being older, and if they do they’re probably not worth your time!</p>