Re-Rushing

[prospective88]

hey you guys! my rush is beginning in two weeks and i have a quick question. even if a sorority invites you to come out to their informal rush events, is it bad to go to all of them. Like will it make me look desperate if i go to every single event a certain sorority is hosting? i am a little confused as to how to go about informal rush :\

[AlexMack]

Originally Posted by prospective88

hey you guys! my rush is beginning in two weeks and i have a quick question. even if a sorority invites you to come out to their informal rush events, is it bad to go to all of them. Like will it make me look desperate if i go to every single event a certain sorority is hosting? i am a little confused as to how to go about informal rush :\

Go to every event you can if you really love one chapter. That way you'll get to talk to different sisters everytime and they'll get to know you. As we all know, and you've seen, formal recruitment is tough because most of the chapter has to go on the word of the 1 or 2 girls who met you and talked with you for 20 minutes.
It doesn't look desperate at all, it means you're taking a real interest in their sisterhood. I'd be flattered if a PNM (who was normal!) came to all our events because she loved my chapter so much.

[BSCAXO]

I actually have a different perspective. I went through as a freshman, preffed my "fav" and two others. At the encouragement of my Rho Chi, rankes all three and got my third choice. I wasn't happy with it and she was kind enough to come let me know ahead of time that I was offered my third--which I declined.

Open rush was not reall common except for the two that were my "two others" so it was pointless.

I actually went through rush again as a sophomore and had a GREAT time. It was awkward going in the house I declined but they were very professional about it. They dropped me of course.

I had really good friends in all of the others (went to the lake in the summer between, etc) and it doesn't mean much I'll tell you. The ones you know only have one vote each. I pledged one that I didn't know much about my freshman year but that was SO great and fun. It was totally meant to be. I was actually living with three of them while rushing my sophomore year (which believe it or not we didn't cheat until the night before bid day they told me I was in) and it was SO SO SO fun running up the hill to them.

ANYWAY, sophomore rush isn't necessarily doom and gloom as I ended up with what I thought was a much better sorority than I would have with open rush.

Hope this helps!