rush week
Sorority selection time
Rush week is the period, typically at the start of a college semester, when fraternities and sororities recruit new members.
Prospective members attend parties, interviews, and social events while houses evaluate candidates.
The week ends with bids—formal invitations to join.
She went to twelve events during rush week.
The process can be exciting or exclusionary depending on your experience of it.
- sororityWomen's collegiate social organization
- hazingAbusive initiation practices
- pledgingMaking a solemn promise
- pledge classProspective Greek organization members
- fraternitySpirit of brotherly connection
mixer · bid · party · Greek life · Greek system · sorority house · chapter house · brotherhood · recruitment · exclusivity · campus · legacy · evaluation · application · quota · callback · cut · freshmen
- collegecampus, courses, application, dorms, dorm room
- college lifefreshman, freshman year, sophomore, junior, classes
- campus eventsopen days, campus tours, convocation, club fair, alumni events
- college activitiesbasketball, clubs, football, sports, baseball
- weekMonday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
- FraternitiesAlpha Kappa Alpha, Triangle, brotherhood, pledging, rushing
rush weekdepledging
Exiting fraternity candidacy
expulsion · blackballing · deactivation · exclusion · disaffiliation
rush weekdead week
Pre-exam study interval
downtime · summer break · winter break · lull · reading period