[Revivia]

How it works at my school is this. All of the guys interested in rushing a fraternity have to attend a formal rush, which costs $50 to attend. You listen to a short speech, then they place you into groups, and you attend every single fraternity, which are located in different rooms of a building they use. They each give a presentation with a slideshow and try to convince you to rush their fraternity. At the end of the presentation you meet with some of the actives of that fraternity, then you go to the next group and repeat the process. We have lots of fraternities at my school, so it took about 4 hours for the entire formal rush to end.

After formal rush, there are house nights the following week on monday and wednesday. These are very casual and laid back. It is optional to attend these and you meet more actives, eat free food, and get to know the fraternity and the members better. On thursday it is "invite night", where the fraternities that liked you invite you back to their fraternity house for a formal interview. Everyone is required to dress full business attire or business casual depending on the fraternity and an interview takes place.

After your interview, you are escorted out of the house, and the group sometimes votes on you immediately after your interview, or watch the taped interviews one by one after all the interviews have taken place, and vote then. On Friday is "bid day", where you receive bids from the fraternities that voted on you. A bid is not guaranteed and some require a majority vote, while most require a unanimous decision.

Today was supposed to be my bid day, but due to snow and an ice storm, it got post poned to tomorrow, so I won't know which fraternities gave me bid cards till tomorrow. I hope that gave you a little idea of how fraternities work, DeltaBetaBaby. I'm sure fraternities and IFC's from other schools are run differently, but my school has a huge greek life, so it is very formal in order to accomodate the mass amount of people that rush each semester.