A few people have asked me about rush in the Northeast and how it differs from rush in other parts of the country.
I've only seen firsthand how rush works at my school but I'm amazed every time I read about rush at southern schools, where there are 15 or more sororities, you need a rec to each of them to rush at all, and they cut you right away based on a 20 minute conversation!
I want to reassure anyone planning to attend school and rush in the Northeast, that it just isn't that cut-throat up here.
In 2-1/2 years as an active sister, I never saw a legacy come through rush, and my chapter probably wouldn't know what to do with a rec if they saw one.
PMN's tend to spend more time with each sorority in the initial rounds, and though the sororities do cut hard, at my school about 90% of PNMs ended up with at least 1 invite to pref... most of them matched, and most of the rest were picked up via snap bids or COBs.
That's not to say you shouldn't look nice, dress well, and be polite during parties... but at the same time, you won't be cut for having a broken fingernail or asking to use the bathroom.
The only real similarity I see between my school's rush and rush in the south, is that you're extremely unlikely to get a bid if you rush beyond your freshman year, unless you're a sophomore who transferred from a school without a greek system.
I hope this reassures those of you who plan to rush at non-southern schools, who have been scared off by those "southern rush is so cut-throat" threads
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