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KTSnake: Where is your school - Oklahoma State? Do you have rush functions in different cities in he summer? Do the Brothers attending then meet and choose who they will offer? Do you have a paid summer rush chairman? Do you offer housing contracts to the freshmen pledges before they hit campus? I know there's a swath of territory through the mid-west (Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa) where most all serious rush is done in the summer and housing contracts are signed. I'm curious as to the specific mechanics.
Fraternity formal rush is very similar to sorority rush, except that the fraternities are more free to make their pitch to the rushees in the ways they want. In formal rush, fraternities are usually forbidden to actually offer a bid until the end, and rushees are usually required to visit all chapters. For instance, PanHellenic tells sororities how they must dress and rigidly structures the presentations (ie. skits), even including rules as to what they can say. Fraternity formal rush used to be more that way. At Emory University - many years ago - the SAEs buildt a swimming pool behind their house in the summer. The IFC declared that during formal rush the SAEs were required to pull their curtains, and were forbidden to mention the fact that they had a pool. "Unfair rush advantage" don't you know...
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