Raining on someone's recruitment parade

[AnchorAlumna]

Originally Posted by WarEagle07

I...(however, I really want to know why SEC rush is so different?):

Um...it's not that it's SEC rush, it's rush with a HUGE number of girls (Ole Miss, Auburn, Alabama, FSU, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, as well as Illinois, Michigan and lots of other places folks can add). These girls may or may not have mamas, grandmamas, aunts, and cousins in sororities, as well as their older high school friends who graduated before them, all talking to them about sororities.
LOTS of emphasis is placed on pledging the "right" sorority, especially during "tent talk." (And the first time I heard that talk was during my freshman orientation, weeks before rush).
Add that to hundreds of girls apparently getting bids, everybody but you...heat, exhaustion, immaturity, emotional turmoil...you can see how it can turn into a bit of mass hysteria!!