Ole miss: What to wear for rush!
 

I'm rushing at ole miss in fall 2010, I don't come from the south & where i live sororities aren't a big thing, no one in my family has ever been in one. I'm looking for some advice on what is appropriate to wear for rush at Ole miss.

Ole Miss is extremely competitive. Do you have any recommendation forms? You will need those.

Not sure about the dressing but I wanted to put that out there.

I'm working on getting rec's, I don't really know how to go about getting them?

For recs and other general recruitment info, check out this thread:
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ad.php?t=54403

I couldn't find anything specific about about what to wear at Ole Miss, but you should probably read up about everything regarding Ole Miss recruitment. Here's a helpful post that refers to other helps posts, lol

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...50&postcount=2

As someone who is an Ole Miss alumna, sorority alumna, and I work on campus, I would read over what the new Panhellenic Website says.
http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/panhelle...l/Welcome.html

Also, keep in mind that recruitment is late in October this year so you will have been on campus for almost 8 weeks before recruitment starts, so you'll have plenty of time to buy clothing. Furthrmore, late October in Mississippi can be anything from warm and humid to cool and rainy. So, I wouldn't go out and buy anything just yet!

There is picture when you click on the recruitment link and it has 3 pictures. Those are the 3 pictures of what they suggest you wear for each round of recruitment. However, your Gamma Chi's (Recruitment Counselors) will inform you in August when recruitment meetings begin for PNMs on what to wear.

Good luck!

Okay off track from the OP but i was looking at the panhellenic website and I had a question. How can some chapters have 300+ girls and then some only have a 120? (I got to a small school and our average chapter size is about 130sih...).

Thanks! All the advice is so helpful! Also, I was told that you are in no way supposed to wear white because rush is after labor day. Is this true?

One does not wear white in the south before Easter nor after Labor Day....and no velvet after Valentine's. Winter white is fine.

Since there are only 9 groups and around 800 or more women go thru there, new member classes have run in the 80's (and even 90's a couple of years). As for why certain groups are larger or smaller than others, it would be unseemly to speculate on that.

Agreed with Titchou on everything!!!

Sorry Jennyj87! I thought I was answering her question but hey, what do I know? ;)

OleMissGlitter - what is CARE Walk? (If this was the 80s it could stand for Candies Are Really Excruciating.)

Good question. It is a Breast Cancer Awareness Walk that Panhellenic sponsors every year before recruitment begins. ZTA Alumnae in Oxford are also a sponsor, even though they do not have a collegiate chapter on campus anymore. All of the sororities are required to participate and potential new members as well. This past year a few fraternities were sponsors too I believe.

Great site, and they are honest about the need for recs. But I question whether it's helpful to publish chapter membership totals -- it seems to single out the smallest chapter. Are they maybe thinking that the culture at Ole Miss is so strong that nothing on a web site could influence PNMs one way or the other?

I had to wonder about the hand sign one chapter is making in their pics. I mean, I see that they're making their letters, but it could be mistaken at first glance. :)
________
VAPORIZER VOLCANO

I thought that didn't serve any purpose either, but you're probably right in that nothing on that website is going to change perceptions of the best and worst groups.

Either that or else they want girls to realize that it will be harder to get into certain sororities and they shouldn't just focus on them.

I did a double take when I saw the hand signs you are referring to! It took me a minute to figure out what they were doing. The hand signs could be construed as offensive to someone who doesn't know better. ;)

As a side note, the chapters at Ole Miss look amazing! I hope the OP shares her experiences after recruitment.

WTF....they need to rethink that one! Ha! Sometimes you try too hard to make things work and you miss the obvious. I had a friend who wanted to name his daughter Aubrey Skye. Unfortunately his last name started with an S. You might see the problem. Fortunately, they had a son!

yah i've heard that the "top" sorority there is delta delta delta, but i'm not taking that stuff into account. Thanks for all the advice everyone & i'll be sure to share how it goes next fall!

QFP

and

Chi Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta just tied for The Chancellor's Cup and Chapter of the Year awarded by Order of Omega.

Sweetie, keep your mouth shut when it comes to how you think the chapters are perceived. Count yourself lucky to be honored by an invitation to any Ole Miss group.

When you get to campus, make friends. Look at their rush wardrobe. SAVE MONEY. It will be somewhat expensive to do it right... Then, plan to go shopping in Memphis before rush week.

Olemissglitter, do the other chapters require formal whites? I have no idea about the other houses... We had ours made, as they were informal whites b/c we stayed in the house to do ritual... If so, she should consider buying a white dress just in case.

That being said, there are plenty of Ole Miss rush stories on here. Read them.

Memphis is the closest big city? No shit. I learned something today.

Well, you can go to Tupelo. But, the shopping was kinda shitty when I was there. Memphis is about an hour or so away.

Now is the time to start cleaning up one's Facebook as well. I would even consider deactivating your Facebook account until after recruitment is finished.

PS According to this, Registration opens on May 8th:
http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/panhelle...ing_Greek.html

Time to get to work getting everything organized.

Amen to what Tippiechick & CutiePie2000 said too!

Memphis has really good shopping! It's about an 1 1/2 hours away! Germantown and Cordova are really close too and have great shopping. Tupelo is okay and they do have some more choices but not as many as Memphis.

I do like Tippie's suggestion to go ahead and buy a nice white dress. There will be plenty around this summer to pick from and come October when you have formal pledging and then initiation (most likely in January) there won't be as many choices! So definitely pick up a white dress now. It doesn't have to be formal either.

Granted that I am only a dad lane swerving a bit, but deactivating a facebook account for six months because an incoming freshman is going to be a PNM at the University of Mississippi is a little over the top.

Most accomplished high school seniors have clean facebook accounts.

However, I agree that if the PNM has issues with their past friends, etc., then deactivation should be considered.

Putting your profile on private may do just as good of a job. At the very least-- edit it. If in doubt, don't post that status or picture.

If you wouldn't show it to your mother, take it off your facebook.

THIS. Seriously, I look at what girls in my own chapter have up...don't they want to get jobs one day? Sorry for the derailment but OP I would absolutely deactivate starting the week or so before rush until after bid day. Before then, it never hurts to turn off your tagged pictures and make sure you're not a fan of embarrassing stuff (like I don't know "i LoVe tO gEt BlAckoUt dRuNk) because sometimes even people you aren't friends with can see your fan pages.

Yes. You are lane swerving.

If you haven't rushed at Ole Miss or you don't have extremely accurate information on rush at UM, please refrain from giving inaccurate advice.

Setting to private may not work. What about friends-of-friends? There are times that I am able to click on photos, etc. b/c someone hasn't totally taken care of the friends-only thing.

If I was to rush all over again at Ole Miss, I would most certainly deactivate my main account. I would create a totally new shadow account during the summer leading up to rush week...

Deactivating your FB account is not a big undertaking here. You just click deactivate, enter your password, enter the little anti-spam code and boom, you're done. The next time you log in, it's reactivated again.

Anyhow, all of the women so far have backed me up, so I stand behind what I said. If someone wants to go Greek, I wouldn't chance having a Facebook incident jeopardize things.

Also, if someone is intending to go through NPC Recruitment at (arguably) the most competitive Greek system in the USA, and they're coming to "Greek Chat" to seek advice from a bunch of random strangers in the Internet, that does not bode very well for their outcome.

Girls who wind up in the most sought after houses don't come to GC looking for advice, because they know what they're doing.

There's always Pontotoc....:D

OMG. My big sis is from Pontotoc. Yeah, girls could do some hard core shopping there, lol.

I haven't rushed at Ole Miss and I don't have extremely accurate information on rush at UM.

I only know one active at UM. She didn't deactivate her account six months before recruitment, but please, don't take that as advice not to deactivate a main account and create a shadow.

I do find solace in this:

http://blonde-biotch-654.xanga.com/s...NdE_bIoTcH_654

:)

Enjoy ---- all about Ole Miss Recruitment. Advice and directions from the past.

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ight=Ole++Miss

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ss#post1914118

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ss#post1874731


http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ight=Ole++Miss

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ight=Ole++Miss

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ss#post1868577

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...ss#post1862068



Greate advice from the thread: Ole Miss Recruitment

I'm going to say that hand sign is a chapter thing...well at least it is done differently by the girls here. I always thought a hand sign was a nation wide type of deal, but maybe not with some groups. Or now that I think about the girls here use their hands and mouth (ok thats not as inappropriate as it sounds I swear!!!) but it is really really cute as long as they don't get it backwards lol.