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Rush at my school is pretty simple. It's free, you don't sign up, you just show up at a pre-approved meeting place, the Rho Chi's take you to whatever sorority is holding an event that night (sometimes it's ABC, sometimes it's XYZ, sometimes they hold back-to-back events on the same night), nobody is cut from individual rounds, and everyone gets invited to pref, however, you can only pref one sorority, since there are only two. After pref, there's a 24 or 30-hour silence period until you either get your bid, or get told you DIDN'T get a bid (always done in person, in private, either in the rushee's room, or in a quiet place around campus), at which point the silence is over, and the rushees can talk to the sorority people if they want. Informal rush works pretty much the same way, minus the Rho Chi's and the preference ceremony, and C.O.B. is sort of like informal, except there's no specific time frame. Oh, and I've honestly never heard of a group withholding a bid from anyone unless they seriously felt that it wouldn't be good for that girl.....in my situation, the XYZ girls liked me, but believed that I had a full schedule of activities already and wouldn't be able to take on the time commitment that pledging required, which was completely true. But that's okay, my school isn't a huge Greek school, and Greeks and independents are encouraged to mix freely (well, come on, imagine how boring it'd be if you were ONLY allowed to talk to the same 20 girls all the time), so I didn't lose any friends just because the Greek thing didn't work out for me.
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