<p>bigred, your post was excellent except for one thing - don't assume that jeans are okay, even for first round. It would have been totally unacceptable for someone to show up at my recruitment in jeans. It really depends on the school, and the girl who is interested in joining a sorority should get that information from friends in sororities at the school or from the Greek life office. Usually they will have a website or packet with information on everything.</p>
<p>Brown, I guess you could call it summer rush as far as what I described in my initial post. If only for the fact that it does happen before school starts...</p>
<p>Fraternity rush is not anywhere close to the same, as it is more like COB for sororities in that there are events throughout the summer, rush chairs travel to take kids out to dinner, golfing, College World Series (since that's in Omaha) and so on. Like I said, for us guys there are only a few schools that have anything similar, so it isn't any good for me to explain it here.</p>
<p>Kirst, you guys can't even wear jeans for meeting your Rho Chis? That's what I was describing. Most girls actually wear like a jean skirt or the equivalent, cute but very casual. Although I do realize how cut throat SEC rush is...so it doesn't surprise me. Given though that most people on this website won't even consider a school in the south or a state school my post is probably a very rough guideline...</p>
<p>god damn, the greek system in the ivy leauge must be soooooooooooo different than that of big schools</p>
<p>From my experience at things like UIFI (Undergraduate Interfraternity Institute put together by NIC), how different any two given greek systems are is a function of how similar their setups are.</p>
<p>So determining factors like whether the chapters (fraternities and sororites) have houses on campus or off, whether rush is in the fall, or spring, number of chapters, overall size, and other more "demographic" sorts of assessment. If they are pretty similar, then the greek systems are going to be pretty similar.</p>
<p>For example, Nebraska and Kansas, both big state schools, that have large chapter houses on campus (each having room for a minimum of 60 members or more). Both with only national organizations, summer rush for guys, fall rush for girls, so on and so forth = very similar Greek systems.</p>
<p>But if you were to compare Nebraska, to a school where the sororities don't have chapter houses (only dorm floors), the fraternities all have off campus houses that only 6-10 brothers live at, hold rush in spring for both sexes and there are only about 600 people in the sytem total, then there are going to be some huge differences.</p>
<p>It should be said though that no matter how similar two given greek systems are, there will always be differences. There is no way to be identicle, because traditions and rules and regulations and the way things run are all going to be different. </p>
<p>But in the end, no matter how different two greek systems are, there will also always be similarities. Greeks will always cherish their undergrad memories, will do community service, will have theme parties, will be on the look out for someone wearing their letters when they travel, and will bash on GDI's (even if it is only a miniscule amount). All will remember the emotion that came from finally finding out what those letters meant, and all will get letters from their organization asking for money when they graduate.</p>
<p>Girls here actually meet the Rho Chis the night before rush starts at all - we have an "orientation" session. I guess you could wear jeans for this but no one really does because they want to make a good first impression (on whom I don't know, because none of the sorority women are there!). </p>
<p>I thought you were talking about the first round - for that, a jean skirt would probably be okay but not great. Most people wear khaki skirts or cute flowered skirts, and some people even really dress up and wear sundresses, but normally you don't wear a sundress until the second round.</p>
<p>Applause for your last post, it is wonderful and I agree 100%.</p>