If you have any influence at all, encourage your sons to look beyond the Greek letters all houses have a combination of them and have an open mind. Hopefully, your son will be able to move beyond the labels and focus more on finding like-minded young men and a place where he will fit in.
This can come in rather handy later when looking to network and find a job in the world beyond college even in another city. Here is a little about how it works. Hopefully, your son will get a bid from the house he wants.
A bid is basically an invitation to join their fraternity. They then have three options to either 1. Accept the bid and rush is essentially over for him or 2. Sit on the bid, the most common choice during rush week, as it allows him to continue to visit other frats and maybe even collect more bids.
In the end, he can only accept one of the bids or 3. Decline a bid and continue the hunt. And then the fun really begins; pledging. Once a bid has been accepted your student becomes a pledge. Try not to let the rumors of hazing worry you because chances are it will never happen. Rush is based on first impressions, judgments, and appearances.
This being said, mention to your son to be sure his social media is looking good. The Interfraternity Council tries to promote the positive aspects of joining a fraternity and takes it very seriously.
They try to oversee that regulations are upheld, but they can only have eyes in so many places. At this point, you may be thinking why would I want my son to subject himself to going through this process? Personally speaking, while fraternity life may not be for everyone, they do offer a lot of benefits including being extremely visible and active on campus, involvement in philanthropies and they make the massive size of UCF seem a little smaller.
Fraternity brothers partake in rituals that are unique to their letters, nationally and internationally, promoting brotherhood. Frats provide leadership opportunities as they are student-run organizations. Fraternities also teach our young men great interviewing skills as they are often asked off-the-wall questions that promote thinking on their feet.
Now the issue will be out in the open, and the brotherhood will be forced to act on it. It is not about them at all, it is about a bad policy that is in place. If enough brothers feel the same way you do, then your fraternity should pass this and your problem will be solved.
To learn more, check out our most in-depth article on fraternity recruitment: The Complete Guide to Fraternity Recruitment. Modern college is a lot of smoke and mirrors. Professors are pushing their social agendas. Most classes are a complete waste of time. Essentially you are there to get piece of paper that says The 1 secret to fraternity recruitment really has nothing to do with recruitment — it is much bigger than that.
Skip to content. Hope this helps. Rather than holding an invitation-only function, we concentrate on: 1 leg work during the day, 2 identifying the men we want, and 3 pursuing them as quickly and aggressively as possible. Lots of rushees walk through the door and we're nice to everyone. But we only concentrate on our rush targets.
Last edited by Firehouse; at AM. Elephant Walk. It's like a civil war in Africa; you know, it doesn't really concern you too much. Firehouse-Yeah I've noticed that a lot of fraternities have been starting to give them out spread out throughout the rush period.
So at your bid day event does everyone who was invited know that its bidday? Originally Posted by jonnydrillbit. My mama said son, that's a mother buckin' mare. Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel. I haven't responded to this thread, I think you mean Elephant Walk. We give out at bids over the summer and at rush events during the course of the week. We have an invite party on the last day of rush week, but we are done rushing by then except for maybe a kid or two sitting on bids.
There aren't any more bids being given out that late in the week here. Last edited by Elephant Walk; at PM. Originally Posted by Elephant Walk. We give out bids as we go along too. There is not really any formal rush period, and by "rush week" you should have your pledge class pretty well in place and just be working on anyone who has received multiple bids and has not made a final choice yet.
Ideally- here anyway- you want at least half your class locked in by the end of July, preferably more. All times are GMT The time now is AM. Contact Us - GreekChat.
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