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I definitely agree with informing people...someone mentioned the fact that someone might end up at a really competitive school and then decide to rush as a sophomore w/o recs and everything. That's definitely what happened to me. I wouldn't have made it through rush if friends I'd made who were already in houses hadn't pulled for me. I grew up w/o knowing anyone Greek, and I was a little intrigued by it, but for many reasons thought I wouldn't be able to do it. For one thing, I not only didn't know people in GLO's, but friends I had stigmatized it, and then after I got to college, some of my new friends also bombarded me with negative views about rushing(and then half of them took COB's, I think they were in denial like me about wanting to be in one). I didn't know anything about "Southern rush" and jokingly thought if I were going to be in a sorority I'd pick the one with the letters I liked the best...I had no clue about the local/national reputations of groups. Even though Greek life isn't a huge thing in the Midwest, where I'm from, if the local PanHel(I wonder if there is an active one!), had an information session at my high school, it really would have helped out a lot. I remember girls here mentioning how their mothers and grandmothers got them recs for every house, and there was no way I could have done that. I think the idea at the high school in Alabama where the teachers indicated if they could write recs was excellent. They're already writing your school application recs, why not just have them write your rush recs too? Some of you all have mentioned that people don't often know how the Greek system works outside of the South...but also if one isn't raised in the South and then jumps into "Southern rush", it isn't exactly easy.
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