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The fraternity recruitment process is only two days long, with the majority of bids being given out on the first night. It's less common for guys to be upset over the house they get a bid to (since they generally only rush one house, and its their choice), but guys definitely get cut from their house of choice. And, one of the downfalls of fraternity rush (since everyone seems to be suggesting that sororities should use fraternity-style recruitment) is that if you're cut from the house you "shook out" at, it's super unlikely that you'll get a bid anywhere else. At least with sorority rush, when you get cut from a house in round 1, you still have other houses as possibilities. I'm not saying sorority rush is better than fraternity rush, I just don't think that converting to an informal, fraternity-style system is the perfect solution to our "recruitment problems".
One of the big differences is the PR. Firstly, the newspaper doesn't seem to to seek out the numbers (e.g. number of men who didn't get a bid) in the same way they do with sorority rush. BUT, a huge difference is that the men who don't get bids DON'T talk about it. Instead of complaining (loudly and openly), most guys will deny that they even rushed if they didn't get a bid.
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