A Couple of Dumb Questions About Recruitment
 

I know when a young woman participates in a sorority recruitment that precedes freshman orientation and the start of the new academic year that she will pay a registration fee, usually $75 or $100. Does that fee include housing in the dorms? Meals? Is the fee pro-rated, that is should a young woman be released from rush after the first or second rounds, would she get a portion of her money back ... I doubt that a newly-released woman would want to stay around watching others get their bids.

Thanking everyone in advance

Varies by school - just call your campus Greek/Panhellenic office to ask about your particular school. They are there to answer questions just like this.

When girls are released from rush, I recommend a) sticking around in case they receive a snap bid, or b) if they absolutely know they wouldn't accept a snap bid, going on a fun day trip near campus and spending evenings browsing online to see all the other possibilites for joining a campus organization.

Call your Student Life office and ask them to direct you to the person in charge of Greek Life on your campus. Just be polite but persistent until your question is answered.

If you do get released for some reason I would truck on over to that Student Life office and ask them for a list of student organizations on campus. You WILL be able to find an organization that is fun for you. See if they have a calender of social events on campus, and find a buddy in the dorm to go with you to these events.

Amicus is a 50something year old dude. I don't think he's going to get released or find a buddy in the dorm.

Obviously I wasn't aware of that. Amicus can change the "you" to "she", and the answer to the question works all the same.

This is not always the case. In my day at my alma mater, all freshmen arrived on campus roughly two weeks before the first day of the fall semester. During that two-week period, freshmen went through rush (it was called rush back then), chose their dorms, and then went through academic orientation and registered for their first-semester courses.

No extra fees were assessed except for the cost of any meals you got in the dining halls during those two weeks, but any freshman could grab a meal at any fraternity house (freshmen males as rushees, freshman females as eye candy for said rushees) - and the co-ed independent living groups held rush events on the same scale as the all-male fraternities, the difference being that freshmen of both sexes were treated as rushees. As someone put it to me when I was a freshman, "If you have to pay for any meals this week, you're doing something wrong."