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Originally Posted by adpiucf
Good luck! Fraternity recruitment is completely unlike sorority recruitment. It is very down-to-earth and conversation-based. Just be yourself. Unlike sororities who many times have a stronger focus on recruiting underclassmen, most fraternity rushes are not this way at all, so age and class rank is not as great of an issue as with sororities. Same goes for grades. While fraternities do want members who are good students, the difference between a 3.0 and a 2.8 is not necessarily as big of a deal to the men as it is to the women's groups. There are always exceptions, however, but in talking to Greeks from campuses all across North America, it seems there's a much more laid back approach to membership recruitment among the men's fraternities.
Go into this process to make friends. Most fraternity rushes have a loose structure where you may visit as many chapters as you would like. Maximize your options-- try to spend some time at all or most of the chapters on the first day to get some impressions. Go back to the ones that interest you. You might be offered a bid on the spot during that first day. Typically, you have 24 hours to accept. You might find yourself considering more than one bid.
Be yourself, have fun and give several chapters an opportunity to meet you so you can see what they are all about. Best of luck!
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Good advice. Here are a couple more things to remember.
If you receive a bid or bids, and still want to check out other chapters, be discrete about it. Don't go to ABC's party saying you have a bid to XYZ. And don't tell XYZ that you are still going to check out ABC and DEF after they extend you a bid. Keep it simple and just thank them and let them know you will get back with them by the indicated time. Depending on the campus, and how the IFC rush is structured, a chapter may be able to resend their bid to you. And might do so if they feel you are not interested in them. The chapter that extended you a bid can get this impression (that you aren't interested) if they find out you are hanging out at other chapters and not coming around to their parties.
And if you happen to really,
really like a chapter, and they extend you a bid, don't feel you "have to" go to other chapters. If you *know* this is the chapter for you, then accept it. I've known plenty of men who knew right away that a chapter was the right one for them. And never regretted their decision.
Best of luck.