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At Penn State University Park this year, Gamma Eta faces the usual nightmarish rush, competing with 22 other sororities for girls.

Penn State rush is a week earlier this year (still pretty late) with open houses starting Sept 18, then parties running through Preference Night on Sept 30, then Oct 1 is Bid Day.

I counted once, and there are something like 49 parties the girls have to smile through (considering that there are 22 open houses alone). Penn State does this without any pictures or resumes, and mostly without recs. At least the weather is usually decent at that time of year - not so brutally hot as Southern rush. But the sororities are widely spread out between 3 different dorm areas, with ASA in the very southernmost corner (near town, which is nice) and the furthest sorority at least a half-mile away (and up a steep hill) which makes for a lot of walking.