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I am Jewish and didn't rush until my sophomore year. In my freshman year, I was really involved with Hillel. I even helped them during orientations the following fall-- our university set up a room for clubs and organizations to promote and recruit at orientation.
At the Hillel table, I would always be asked, "My son/daughter is rushing. Which one is the Jewish fraternity/sorority?"
I wasn't Greek at the point, but I was planning on rushing that fall. I told them, based on my observation as a GDI, that we didn't have a historically Jewish sorority on campus, but ABC and XYZ were currently the chapters with more Jewish girls. At that point, we did have a new AEPi chapter on campus, but there were also guys in other fraternities who had a large concentration of Jewish guys.
When I went through rush, my religion wasn't an issue. I WAS on the executive board of Hillel at that point as VP of Public Relations or somesuch office, and I was frequently introduced as, "This is ADPiUCF (ok, I was GDI-UCF at that point!) and she's VP of PR for Hillel." People seemed impressed that I was involved in leadership on campus... Maybe it made me "diverse." Whatever. I ended up preffing what would be considered two top tier sororities at my school, and I can't complain about where I ended up. ADPi was sensitive to the fact that there would be members who were not Christian and they took great care to make sure that we never felt our beliefs were compromised or unnoticed.
I think today, the school is more ethnically diverse than it was in the mid-late 90s.
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