[FuzzieAlum]

Honestly, it really depends where you go to school on whether on not dropping out of rush will be perceived as a race issue. Sure, if you start rushing at 'Bama and drop out, WWIII might just break out! But at many schools the sororities are much more integrated, and they will assume you dropped out because you didn't find the sororities to be right for you.

Generally, schools set quota after third party ... so if you don't want to "take a spot" you'd have to drop out early. Also, it's a little unfair to the sisters to put them in a position of rushing you when you are 100% certain you don't want to join. If you were on the fence, that would be different. They could be getting to know truly interested rushees who might join their organization, rather than giving you an educational experience.

Some sororities don't do rush like the NPC groups (the NPHC and most MCGLOs come to mind), and new colonies are formed all the time of women who have no experience with formal rush - yet they manage to put together a great formal rush when their turn comes. So I simply don't see going through formal rush as a necessity for recruiting women for a new group.