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Originally Posted by xoredhotxo
I'm currently a freshman in a sorority at w&l, so maybe I can help answer some of your questions. Formal rush is the first week you get back from winter break, which is early January. It's a week of visiting houses and doing different activities (philanthropy night, skit night, etc). Thursday night you'll be down to 2 houses, which you then pref. Friday is bid night!! Informal rush happens all fall term. You'll go on rush dates, meet lots of upperclassmen girls, and basically just figure out what you want to do. You'll have 6 sororities to choose from instead of just 5, since ADPi is coming next year. Feel free to ask any questions. Plus, you'll get a Rho Gamma to explain everything once you get to campus. Hope this helps!
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This is totally accurate but I wanted to add a few things. Recruitment at W&L (at least through 2006) has the following nights:
Philanthropy Night - make a craft
Skit Night - duh, you can figure this out
Sisterhood Night - watch a sisterhood video
Preference Night - have a pref ceremony
It goes 5-4-3-2. However, ADPi will be colonizing this year, so I have no idea how they will change those numbers. Due to the unusual nature of W&L, ADPi will be colonizing DURING formal recruitment. So obviously the first night will have 6 houses. I don't have any idea how they'll work from then on, though.
Besides the informal recruitment dates (which basically consist of sorority members calling you up and saying "let's hang out," often in large groups), there are also formal "Meet the Greeks" informational events that occur in the fall. I would guess ADPi will be doing some to promote themselves and their colonization as well in the fall.
Also, each freshman hall gets its own assigned Rho Gamma, which I think helps encourage people to register for recruitment...
xoredhotxo, feel free to correct any of that if it was outdated.