Yale A Capella Rush - LIke Greek Rush w/o the Binge Drinking?

[adpiucf]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

Ok, I finally got my sound card working. Oy

A cappella is also pretty big at my school, but it's nothing like what goes on at Yale and it's not really like rush. You have an audition, some of the more popular groups do callbacks, and they select their new members.

There are only a few a cappella groups, because we had a (stupid) rule that no two student groups could be formed for the same purpose - so if there were, for instance, a gaming club, you couldn't form another one, you were expected to join the existing one. This held true even if the groups were selective in their membership. So we had: the coed group, the all-women's group, the all-men's group, the coed group that would let Wellesley students join, the Christian group, and the Jewish group (the one I sang with) - AND THAT WAS IT. You wanted to form another singing group? Too bad, unless you could make it in some way different from the existing groups.

I want to start the a capella ventriloquists group!

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by adpiucf

I want to start the a capella ventriloquists group!

I think that would be allowed...

[IvySpice]

Is this still a big thing?

At Yale? Gigantic. Huge. There's no other school that's quite this involved. There are a few schools (Penn and UVA come to mind) where there's a strong Greek system AND a large a cappella system.

[AGDem]

I knew that at Yale a capella groups had a strong history, however the only one that I'm somewhat familiar with are the Whiffenpoofs. Very interesting, though.