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Originally Posted by gator6288
Should I send my current top choice fraternities to rush...an email letting them know that I'm interested? If so, what kind of information should I include?
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Elephant Walk, CrackerBarrel (and TexasWSP if you see this), what do you guys think about this?
It is a question that comes up a lot, and I really don't know the answer since I came into the rush process back in my time without having to call anyone to get the ball rolling. It was known I was interested, and I was contacted. I figure it was the same for you guys too, but as active chapter members you have a better handle on current practice than I do.
My inclination is that it is bad form purely on the grounds that the "connections" angle we have been discussing is how names get passed around. I know in my chapter the rush captains get names from alumni and from actives who check around with their younger siblings or friends still in high school. We don't really get people contacting us first, and I assume it was like that when I was an active too.
I could see direct contact ("cold calling") to the chapters as okay for someone coming from out of state who is very unlikely to have existing contacts in the area, but from an in-state individual it seems like it would raise a red flag.
Gator6288- don't let any of this freak you out. You are asking the right questions and taking the right attitude. These little details are important and so that is why I want to get some consensus on this question of yours.