One of the things that is an expectation of the chapter is that the guys we sign have always been Betas, they just never knew it/been called that by name. In other words we don't take boys and make them Betas, we take untapped Betas and mature them in to full fledged, productive members.

I like that! I bet you have great retention!

wonderful philosophy
 

i echo jam...i bet you have a strong staying power. my dad is a beta so i am a little bit fond all aready. congrats...all sounds wonderful.'

I think it's great that you guys see your rushees like that ("untapped Betas"). Maybe this guy that you like so much in person is just sooo untapped that even his rush app is deceiving. Maybe, being that he's such a great guy in person, joining the house is all he needs to realize his own full potential. I believe that who you are is very dependent on your enviornment while growing up. If he didn't have a Beta-esque nurturing enviornment, he wouldn't have been encouraged to "be all that he could be" so to speak. But I'm sure you guys will make the right decision, whatever it is. Just thought I'd add my 2 cents

Okay, just back from Lincoln this afternoon, and had an awesome weekend!

It was a great for me just to be back with all my bros for some partying and having fun, as well as see some other people that I've missed.

The rush event on Saturday was a huge success, and was extremely well attended. I think that we probably had 15-20 guys come through along with their parents.

The big news was that after this rush event we went from having 1 guy signed to having 4! The kid I mentioned ealier whose older sister (a Gamma Phi) is engaged to a guy in Farmhouse turned in his bid card on Friday. We signed another Lincoln guy (from the same HS as the first) and a guy from Aberdeen SD.

I'm really excited by the kid from SD. I met him at the Sioux Falls rush event (he was the quiet one), and talked to him a bit there. Saturday, I ate lunch with him and his mom. Myself and our former president's mom talked with them and it was fun to see the pledge's mom get excited about the house. She is an Alpha Phi and so you could tell she had her expectations from her own experience, but as the conversation kept going she just started smiling more and more.

In addition to the 2 guys signed, we also got verbal commits from 3 others. I didn't talk to any of those guys but it wasn't really necessary.

We also handed out bid cards to a couple more guys. One guy I really got to see how important having a Parent's day can be.
This rushee is down to deciding between us and one other house, he, his mom and his 9 year-old sister came to our event, and I think that it probably secured him as a member of our house. I was so impressed by our rush chairs as well, because of the way they talked to his mom and his little sister. I think that the rushee and his sister are very close, and our rush chairs could have easily ignored her, but they talked to her almost as much as they talked to the rushee (who we've seen for a while now). It was great seeing them talk to her about school and fourth grade and homework and stuff like that. Really, I'm just proud to be brothers with the guys we picked as rush chairs for being such great, friendly guys. The rushee's mother was also really impressed with how clean our house was and the fact that we invited the parent's over to see it, as well as having our own parents come and help with rush. I really think that if this rushee signs with us it will be because we won over the people that are important to him, by doing so it probably was the thing that made us different.

Other news: The rushee with the not so hot rush app was discussed at length during our Summer Chapter meeting and we've decided to extend him a bid.
We also discussed a lot of other rushees and decided not to give bids out for certain guys for various reasons. Some are unfortunate, some simply because we don't think that we're right for the rushee due to circumstance or situations. One rushee is a victim of being from the same HS as a lot of other stud rushees that are all very interested in us, and unfortunately this kid while he has a solid app is not as good as those other guys. Another guy is a sophomore and would be a live out, which is something that makes everyone leary. It's compounded by the fact that he's in the most intensive program on campus and we don't feel that he'll be around enough, so we're going to reccomend that he look into Pike b/c they don't have a house and he would be better able to meet their expectations. Honestly, we have no qualms in giving reccomendations to other houses when it's certain that it would be a better fit for everyone.



Finally, the best part of the weekend was getting to party with two of our new pledges (the Lincoln guys). Now that they've signed they can come party with us all summer. Had a great time with them last night and had the hangover this morning to prove it!

That's all for now, we're starting to reap what we've sown, and this maybe by the end of this week we'll have 10 signees or more if we're lucky!

Sounds like you guys are doing great! From the way you describe everything I can't see why every guy won't accept his bid! Good Luck

I got a PM from someone asking about what types of things made parents excited about our house as part of the rush process. This is going to stray from the focus of rush, but it might be interesting to some of you.

I can think of several things that really were important this past weekend.

First off, was the answering of any hazing questions by looking the parent directly in the eye and telling them that we don't haze and meaning it. For some parent's that's huge and really allays any fears that they may have. It really probably makes them feel that they can trust us with their pride and joy.

Another thing was just having our house clean. We pride ourselves on having the cleanest house on campus and we make sure that every room is clean enough to show. I heard a lot of moms making that comment on Saturday of how clean the place was.

The other thing, that I really noticed got parents excited was talking to them about our Parent's Alliance and all the things that Parent's can get involved with. We have a Parent's day that coincides with Homecoming week that has a silent auction, a luncheon and of course the game. We also have parent's come and decorate the house for Christmas, and a program that has parent's send snacks for Dead Week and Finals week. Another thing is that we have our parents come for our Winter Formal, and serve us and our dates dinner; the parents then order pizza and clean up, while really getting to know each other.
Another things the mom's all love is the fact that we have a Mom's Day each spring. Nothing super fancy, just a nice luncheon and some singing.

The Parent's Alliance is really great about raising money for the house too, and I think that gives the parents the feelign that they're making the house better for their sons. This summer our Alliance raised money to get all our bathrooms steam cleaned, as well as get new patio furniture for our deck. Also the Parent's Alliance allows all the parents to stay involved with their sons in some way and that can't be underestimated.

Obviously the last way is through the Parent's Day rush event. My parents along with alot of other brother's parents came to the house to meet rushee's parents which I think shows that our parents think very highly of what we're doing at house, and that we're happy to have our parents help out and be involved...

Hope I explained just how we get our parents involved and excited about the house, and how that really can help during rush.





PS: Some people mentioned retention earlier. Our initiation rate over the past 4 years has been about 95% (only 5 out of 93 were not initiated).

Difficult rushees
 

Rush App
 

I was wondering what do you look for in guys when they turn in their rush app. Like, what are the grades that you expect to see from HS, and stuff like that.

First off, I just wanted to say that I think this is the best rush thread that I have read, simply because it's about time that we have seen kind of behind the scenes of a guy's rush that doesn't usually get presented on GreekChat!

As for the kid who is torn between the two houses, I think leaving him alone would do more harm than good. If you think he is truly "Beta material" as you've said, more contact without overdoing it will just strengthen the standpoint of your house as well as letting the rushee know that he is top material and cream of the crop.

Re: Rush App
 

The things we are looking for in rush apps are by no means completely objective, but you know a great app when you see it.

Basically we're looking for ACT scores of at least 22, and HS GPA above 3.0. Class rank can tell us a lot in bigger schools, but sometiems we're dealing with kids who graduated with 25 people and so it's possible their class rank isn't so great.

We also look for involvement in their school, so things like varsity and JV sports, NHS, Boys' State, StuCo, DECA, and things like that are eyecatching.

The thing is that it's easy to tell a great app and a horrible app, but defining the line between okay, and sub-par is difficult. That's why if we do meet with someone, we put greater importance on the face to face time. Also there have been several rushees with great apps that are total tools in person. So again the feelings one gets from meeting with a guy are going to be better judges of how the guy will fit into our house.

The other thing for us is that it's important to take the entire application into consideration and not call guys just because they were validictorian, or had a 35 ACT score, or were president of all their clubs in HS, or whatever one amazing thing about the kid might be. We're looking for well rounded kids more than anything, and we usually would prefer to take the kid who was Homecoming king with a 25 ACT and 3.3 GPA, then the kid with 4.5 weighted GPA and 35 ACT score but nothing else.

Im going to agree with Nash, I am glad that there is a fraternity perspective on rush on greekchat.

First off, congrats. Looks like your summer rush is turning into quite a success.

I'm very interested to get a view on fraternity rush other than my own school's. I've seen lots of sorority rush stories here, but few fraternity stories.

We had summer rush for both fraternities and sororities, but it was more of a way of getting a sneak peek at PNMs. For fraternities, extending bids before the third day of fall rush was a big no-no, so you could use summer rush to figure out who you wanted to bid, but you had to wait to actually bid them. For sororities, PNMs had to go through formal fall rush. (My school has since gone to deferred rush, so summer rush has gone away.)

What do you do about guys who don't live in the immediate area? Are they just SOL?

Do you have a target # of guys you want to sign before the fall?

Good luck with the rest of summer rush :)

Beta,

Just a couple questions on Summer Rush. I am from a small school in Western Kansas with open rush. We have decided to recruit through the summer by planning several events around the state. Our first event was not very successful, with no potential members from the area attending. The next event is tomorrow in Wichita, KS which looks to be more promising.
Do you happen to have any suggestions on how to entice more recruits to come to the events? Any suggestions on calling them or attracting them through mailings?

For the guys not in the immediate area, you have to define immediate area. Our Rush chairs will pretty much go to someone within a days drive to meet them if it's necessary. There are some kids who live in Nebraska who are 7 hours away from the University, so trips to Iowa, or the three hours to Kansas City or Sioux Falls are really no big deal.

However for the kids farther away the best time for them to meet with houses is when they come to campus for their New Student Enrollment day, which every incoming freshmen has to do. If they don't make an NSE day then they don't enroll for classes and arent' coming to the University. Since many of those kids don't fly out the same day it gives them time to explore houses. One of my pledge brothers is from Seattle. Typically it seems that most kids that come in from out-of-state have relatives either in Lincoln or Omaha or nearby, and they'll stay for a couple days and travel into Lincoln to see houses. So there are ways for guys that are way far away to join, and most chapters will make exceptions to there general rush parties for those circumstances.

As for the number of guys we try to sign. We usually try to fill our pledge class during the summer, maybe find one more guy during formal fall rush, but that isn't a guarentee, nor is Formal rush that widely used. There has been an effort to increase participation in Winter rush, but my house does not participate in it, because we want to have pledge classes be together for the whole year. Plus our house is at capacity so we wouldn't have room to move guys into the house.

I'm guessing your from Fort Hays...

The biggest thing you can do is get the word out. Contact them early and often. This could potentially be a very big project, as it's possible that you'll just get a list of every incoming freshman male from your University or Office of Greek Affairs.

First I'd go to Greek Affairs and see what they can do for you, or if they have any suggestion on how to get names of rushees. You may have to try the Office of Admissions after that for names, and they may not release them to you for various reasons.

One idea that will have to wait until next year, but could be successful would be to go to all the sororities and ask the girls for recommendations (along with contact info...at least a phone #) for guys who would be a good for your chapter. Offer a party, or some other sort of prize for the sorority that gives you the most names.

As for the events themselves, try to get as many guys there as possible, make sure there is food and something to do, even it's just a swimming pool as some guys house. Also, make sure the brothers talk to the rushees. It won't help you out if the brothers keep to themselves the whole time, never getting to know any rushees.

Good Luck, hopefully I've offered some help.

congrats...
 

to your chapter's success. it shows what hard work and organization can do.
props to you beta for an outstanding thread.

I LOVE THIS THREAD!

As a parent, I can say I TOO would be impressed if I met you and your brothers under the circumstances you have described!
The hazing part is so important-especially when it's an honest answer!

When I read about the things you look for on an ap. I thought "uh-oh" because my son's class was one of those where it was really uncool to be in STUCO or hold an office because the clubs were dominated by girls and a few guys that were not too social. He did graduate with honors, and though his class rank is high, it isn't as high as the guys who took the "easy A" courses.
His were all advanced and beyond the college requrements. Oh well, in reality, he is better off.

Though he has been invited to parties, he has no place to stay when out of town except with friends from a different fraternity.
I would bet the larger chapters have their pledge class pretty much selected by now as well. Maybe he should skip the process and wait to see what he really wants and who really wants him.

Anyway, this is such a great read and so informative!

Since this seems to be an interesting thread, I will add my chapters summer rush plans. I am a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Fort Hays State University, which is in western Kansas. We have a very small greek poplulation(less than 2%). Our rush is open so we can recruit members at any time. We have decided to start doing summer rush to get a jump start on rush. The fraternity's on campus usually recruit mainly in the first two weeks of the semester. Most of the students who go to Fort Hays are from Kansas so we have planned five events around the state. Our first event was in southwest Kansas. We try to call a few recruits before we went to the event, but didn't have much luck. When we went to the event, we were hoping that maybe one rushee might show up, but it didn't happen. It wasn't a total lose since it turned into a brotherhood event.

Tonight is our second event. We are going to Wichita, KS which is a lot bigger, and students from that area our more interested in Greek Life. We have contacted several potential members from the area. We have one confirmation, which makes the trip worthwhile. Also, we have received a recruitment recommendation from a member of SAE from the Wichita State Chapter. We are hoping that the trip turns out successful.

SAE_KSDE My sister went to Fort Hays (SSS). Do you have any members from Great Bend or Ellinwood? GB may not be the most progressive town, but they have their own little social scene going and there is/was a strong Greek history for all the college bound who now have children entering college. Fort Hayes was a unique palce (can I say "neat" even though I date myself?) that I enjoyed visiting.

That makes sense.

We typically held our summer rush parties wherever we had enough brothers/sisters. Typically, this meant Boston, NYC, maybe Chicago, maybe DC, maybe somewhere on the west coast. If you lived elsewhere, you got the info for the Boston parties and you were pretty much SOL unless you made the trip.

For sororities, it wasn't a big deal if you couldn't get to summer rush, because you had to go through formal fall rush anyway. For fraternities, it could be a problem; some fraternities had their pledge classes pretty much picked out before fall rush, while others had a good idea of a couple of guys they wanted, but were still looking for more new members.

Justamom,

We currently do not have any members from Great Bend or Ellinwood. At Freshman Registration, we talked to a couple of guys from Great Bend who seemed interested. We are inviting them to our recruitment event in Salina, and our talking about visiting Great Bend and taking them out for Dinner.

Okay, realized I had yet to say anything about this week.

This is kinda a quiet week for us, a chance for the rush chairs and the chapter to have a little break from the grind of rush (although in all actuality now that the NSE has started the rush chairs have to be present at the house every day to give tours.). All that is going on this week is a BBQ tomorrow night at the house. I imagine that with all the verbal commits from rushees that the BBQ will see several guys turn in cards. Also, now that NSE has been going for a week, there will probably be several new faces that begin showing up. Finally, Lincoln Public School Seniors only graduated 2 weekends ago and so all the kids from the schools in Lincoln who waited until after graduation to be contacted should fully be in the swing of rush by this point.

Other than the barbeque, there is no event this week, but of course that doesn't mean rush stops. I imagine that phone calls will be made and some guys taken out. So while the big event is missing, we still could offer some bid cards this week.


JAM: Saw your worry about rush apps...basically I can tell you that you shouldn't worry too much. If you think your son might not be getting calls due to not having involvement on his app, the best way to overcome that is to just go to the houses. Like I've said earlier, the app only can be used for so much, and even then it comes down to how he clicks with the guys. Obviously it is more difficult if he doesn't have a place to stay for a couple of days to check out houses, but it might be worth it just to spend some time down there, even if has to set up arrangements to stay the night with a fraternity (something my chapter did for my pledge brother from Seattle). If he does decide to stay with guys from one house, my suggestion would be that he meets with other houses before he meets the guys he's staying with, and then after he's packed up all his things and said his goodbyes the next day. But he also needs to let the guys he's staying with know that he's there to check out all houses and just because he's staying with him doesn't mean they're his first choice.

Is he going to the same school your daughter is going to? If so maybe he could stay with some of her friends in the area for one night? Just an thought.

Signees 5 and 6!
 

Two more bid cards arrived back to our house today.

One was from one of the guys who told us on saturday he would sign (an Omaha kid).

The other the guy who was down between us and Farmhouse. The extra talking to from the rush chairs, and the guys he already knew in the house helped us secure him...

Also one more bid card was sent out, and this guy has his choices narrowed down to us and two other houses. That means we have 9 bid cards out, and 2 of those guys have given us verbal commitments that they will send the card back with their signatures on it...if we got all nine that would bring our pledge class up to 15 guys, not bad for being about half way through the rush period.

I think that there will be some more bid cards given out very soon, including the one to the aforementioned kid with not so great rush app.

Yes, he will be at the same school. We just aren't a town the fraternities cater to. His sister seems to think he will be "just fine" and is very willing to help him. Thanks for the ideas Betarulz, I hadn't even thought of those possibilities!

Now he's thinking we could just hand him $1,000.00 if he decides NOT to rush!!!:rolleyes: He's a crafty one!:D

OK, I'm just blown away!
 

I am just amazed at the amount of effort that goes into your summer rush. The amount of driving alone is mind-boggling! Do the rush chairs receive $ compensation of some sort from the chapter so they don't have to work? It sounds like a full-time job in itself.

I am also amazed at the level of parental support/involvement you have. That is something I have never seen at that level before. Amazing!

It seems like summer rush is something that's unique to the great plains states. How long have you guys been doing it like this? I'm just curious how it came to be the norm, since it is so different from most of the country.

Wouldn't it be great if sororities were secure enough in themselves to do this? Not to say they aren't out there, but I think it would make our system run so much more smoothly if we were focused on helping the rushees find their home instead of us appearing to be so competitive.

Beta, I LOVE hearing this story. My husband told me how he was rushed by Sigma Chi from Fulton, MO at a party in Little Rock, AR. I just couldn't imagine them coming to LR, but they did!!! Good Luck!!

Re: OK, I'm just blown away!
 

The rush chairs job pretty much is a full time job, they really can't get a job until the 2nd half of the summer until New Student Enrollment is over. They get a portion of their house bill deducted for the work and are also given the IRS standard per mile driven (I think it's like $.37/mile)

I think that summer rush has been going on since the mid '80s. I'm not sure what caused the change but for a while there wasn't even a formal rush period at the start of the fall semester, and even now it isn't very widely participated in by potential rushees.

I really like summer rush, just because of the time allowances and the way I think it allows every guy to find the right place for themselves. However I realize that it can't be done everywhere, particularly places where a lot of people come from far away. It also means that housing for upper classmen has to change, as it seems less than a great idea to rush in the summer but still have to live in the dorms...

Signee #7
 

Good luck BetaRulz!

Congrats on your new pledge!!! :D

Okay, this kid has received a lot of attention lately, because all the people that weren't at the summer chapter meeting decided that we have to have him, or that he'll make the pledge class so much better or something else...

I think it's full of shit. The kid's nice, but not everyone can be a Beta, and just because he knows some of what is expected of him as a pledge (he had friends pledge last year) doesn't mean he is going to be able to give the same commitment or meet our expectations. So much of our fraternity is based on the bonds of brotherhood made while being a pledge, that to be a sophomore, live-out, in the most intensive program at UNL ( Most kids that graduate from it end up with triple majors in 4 and a half years...everyone who graduates gets a dual major in business and computer science) are three MAJOR hurdles to overcome, that have been proven as big hurdles in previous pledge classes.

I'm just not down with putting a kid in a situation that is most likely setting him up for failure.

Okay, back to the good news of rush...


First off, big congrats to sthpllrd who previously posted on this thread way back at the beginning. He signed with Alpha Tau Omega (right next door) not to long ago he told me in a recent PM.

One of his close friends just turned in his bid card to us today and that brings our pledge class up to 8. Some guys are feeling that we may be behind in Rush, but according to our rush chairs as of last thursday we had the same number of pledges as SigEp, so that allayed some fears.

We also had a first yesterday. The first kid to be offered a bid card and not sign with us signed with ATO this week. His cousin was a rush chair for ATO so it was an uphill battle the entire time. I never met the kid but I heard a lot of great things about him. Dissappointment? yeah, particularly for the guys who got to know him, but you win most, you gotta lose some. Personally I was pretty surprised that it went this long before we "lost" a guy to another house. I just kinda figured that it would have happened by now. With that statistic though, I find a lot of confidence in what our rush chairs have done, and also in that the chapter made the right choice in getting those guys in as rush chairs. It really speaks highly of them and also the chapter.

I'll continue to let everyone know about signees just as soon as they happen.

As for this week: Rush BBQ on thursday, and a rush event at a lake just outside of Lincoln on Saturday. I'm trying to get out of work on Friday in order to head up to Lincoln in time for the BBQ, but we'll just have to see if I can. I'll definitely be up there Friday afternoon at the latest. This is the first rush (pretty much only)event we can invite girls too(:D), since they usually want to stay in Lincoln. NSE days this week are Tuesday through Friday, So there will probably be some new guys coming through (hopefully).

thanks for the congrats.
I really liked your house, it seems like a great place. I just felt more comfortable at ATO. Its just one of those times where you can just feel where you best fit in.
My dad was an ATO in the 70's, he was super fired up when I told him my decision.
thanks again beta.

Competition and strength spread between several houses makes for a stronger Greek system! Everybody wins!

Hey Beta I was wondering how much do you spend on postage? My fraternity is sending out a letter to incoming freshmen and we thoughtn we could get discounted postage being a non-profit org but we cant.

You know, I'm not really sure.

I know that we try to send rush packets to all the rushees we meet and want to see again. I guess we save on postage by giving packets to them when we see them.

I also know that we were able to our recruitment scholarship application sent along with stuff from greek affairs that was sent out to all those interested in Greek life, which I'm sure saved us a bunch of money. But honestly I never thought about postage.

Thanks for all your help. We are going to pay .37 for the 700+ letters. This is our first year doing a mailing so I hope we see some results.

#9
 

Pledge #9 signed on the spot after a given a bid card. So that's pretty good.

We also got confirmation from two other rushees that they will sign with us. One is the guy with the not so hot rush application, so I guess the rush chairs were satisified with the answeres he gave when questioned about his grades and stuff.

The other confirmed signee was the one where the rush chairs really impressed me at Parent's Day by talking to the rushees little sister a lot. One rush chair expects this kid to turn in his card tommorow.

That's all the news so far, the pledge class really is beginning to take shape.

I'm off to Lincoln for the weekend, expect some update on sunday.

That's great news, Beta! Keep up the good work! :D

Great to hear of rushees singing their bid cards and I hope the other 2 rushees sing w/your GLO soon.:)

Okay, it was a good weekend. I'm a little sunburned, but really not too bad. I'm also still a little hungover from last nights festivities despite the fact I've been up for 6 hours and driven home already...


Anyways, went up Friday, and met some guys who were going through houses after NSE. Actually had one kid recognize me as the guy who gave him a tour of our house during his senior visit day. I guess it's really not that surprizing since our house was the only fraternity house shown on those days, and I gave like 95% of the tours through the house.

We had a kid from Idaho show up, and come back later in the afternoon, and I think that he may have been given a bid card, but I'm not sure. Obviously the rush chairs had been in contact with him throughout the summer up until this point.[edited] He was not given a bid card, but probably will get one in the mail it looks like.

Yesterday (Sat). we had a rush party out a lake north of Lincoln, and the weather was great, and we had a great turnout of rushees, signees, girls and brothers. Over 60 people were out there as part of our group, tossing around frisbees, footballs, going jet skiing and swimming. We had almost half our house there which is really great, because it shows the dedication the actives have towards getting a pledge class. It was also good to have most our new pledges in the area show up and they actually got a chance to talk to the guys we were rushing to see what they thought of a couple of them.

Two new bid cards were given out, one to yet another guy from that same Lincoln HS, i think that puts us at probably 6 from there. I'm weary about it, but meeting these guys, and seeign their apps just makes you want to sign them and so we have. The other bid card went to a guy from Holdrege, our second from that area. His friend signed early this past week.

Two guys from Kearney have given the word they are going to sign with us, one of them was the Valedictorian out of a class of over 400, and the other is my Pledge Dad's little brother. After our rush event they went and punk'd another house for a free meal, even though they knew their decision.

We have one kid who has apparently become a rush crush, and is saying "Beta or Bust". Problem is we have to tell him that we're not interested. I talked to him about what other houses he was looking at, and he told me just one other, but that he called them a couple weeks ago and they never picked up so he hadn't talked to them in over a month. To be honest he doesn't mesh well with us at all, and perhaps thinks that the fact people talke to him at our rush event is a sign of interest, when it's really to see what the rushee is like and if we want to become interested. I watched him for a little bit during the day, and he pretty much only speaks when spoken to. Now being quiet isn't a negative, but during rush, it's one of those things that you make yourself more outgoing, at least going up and saying "hi" to the people you've met before.

The kid who I've mentioned before who is a sophomore live out in the really intensive program was also there and I talked to him a lot, just to really get enough to make my final judgement. He's a really nice kid, and is great to talk to in a group of two or three, but in anything larger he just completely shuts down. I also think that while he would have friends in the house, that he necessarily would fit in/be able to talk to all the different types of guys we have, particularly in his own pledge class si where I worry about this. This makes me hesistant to want to offer him a bid, not even thinking about his situation of being a sophomore live-out in a very intense program that is very demanding of his time. If he only had two strikes against him, I'd say we should probably give him a card, but the tri-fecta just really makes me anxious. I think what the rush chairs decided was to tell him that at this time we can't offer him a card, but if we think our #'s aren't where we want them that we'll sign him.

As for some good news about rushees, I met some more of the guys we've signed and I'm really excited, all of them are super, super cool. They're smart, easy to talk to, interesting guys, and they remind me a lot of my pledge class in that way.

I also talked to a couple of rush chairs from other houses, and they all said that they were amazed how we are dominating rush, really getting the top guys and having such good signing % of the guys we've given bid cards to. It's nice to hear such praise coming from other houses.

I really think taht this week will bring us a lot of signed bid cards, I certainly hope so.