#rushtok

[ms-march]

If the southern Rush girlies were in the continental army, Charleston wouldn’t have fallen

#this is a text Amanda sent me in honor of it being rushtok season again #she’s letting me post it it because I don’t get to rush because we don’t have sororities and I’m genuinely heartbroken over it #yeah you read that right #i was born to be a sorority girl this sis so unfair #clair rambles #turn amc #turn: washington's spies #amrev #american revolutionary war #american revolution #John laurens #historical john laurens #South Carolina #rushtok #sorority #turn washington’s spies

[gamma-xi-delta]

University of Alabama sorority rush season has officially started, which means it's taken over TikTok for the second year in a row. If your FYP is inundated with Bama Rush, but you're feeling overwhelmed by the ins and outs of recruitment, we've got you covered. Here's all the must know slang of #RushTok, explained.

#University of Alabama #UniversityOfAlabama #Tuscaloosa #ua #bama #sorority #sororitygirls #sorority girls #sororitylife #sorority life #sisterhood #greek life #go greek #philanthropy #sorority recruitment #panhellenic #orientation #sorority rush #RushTok

[visenyaism]

ASOIAF character(s) most likely to make it big on bama rush tiktok?

-MARGAERY. The closest thing we have in the United States of America to like “young heiress raised since birth to demolish the social and political game at feudal court” like Margie is would be 18-year-old Southern Belle, legacy on both sides of the family on the old row, rushing at Alabama. She would absolutely sweep both in the actual process and getting away with documenting it on social media if she wanted to.

-Bama Rush Tiktok Favorite Pick Wylla Manderly gets dropped from all houses for having green hair, causing a massive social media PR scandal

-Sansa definitely picks up a lot of bama rush tiktok followers for being really sweet and having very creative fun outfits, but she’s fighting an uphill battle being from the north/not knowing a lot of people. kind of a legacy because her mom was like a tri delt at uva or duke or some other non-sec southern school but it is a WHOLE different ballgame in the south south.

-Dany could do well but would decide not to because she’d definitely get kicked out for publicly denouncing The Machine.

-Myrcella would do alright, but her heart’s not really in it, she’s there because everyone in her family has been like a phi mu for generations and her mom threatened to cut her off if she didn’t rush. get lots of followers because of the Bama rushtok audience’s tendency to want to dress up the girls like Barbie dolls even though they’re real people.

#One thing it’s really important to understand about Bama Rush is that those orgs are as racist and classist as they come. like theyre bad #like they’re bad in the way feudalism is bad they elevate this elite class with extreme prejudice #asoiaf

[d33pwithinmys0ul]

absolutely hilarious that terry is canonically on bama rushtok

#solar opposites

[hoursofreading]

It is so natural to want to belong: to crave something, anything, that could ease your way during the most terrifying transitions in life. But it should also be natural for us to think more — like, a whole lot more, a whole newsletter or hours of Instagram Stories more, the rest-of-our-lives more — about any system animated so thoroughly by exclusion

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[a-concert-just-for-me]

rushtok is so morbidly fascinating to me

#jess rambles #everyone looks exactly the same and talks exactly the same and dresses exactly the same and decorates exactly the same #from a sociological standpoint it is so interesting #the fact that these girls can rank each other in the social hierarchy so effortlessly #based on how a person looks; how charismatic they are; how well they fit into the ingroup; and how much money their family has #it’s like they’re breaking out the goddamn abacus to decide who makes it and who doesn’t #these girls are doing 4d social status chess in their heads in real time it’s insane #I joke but it is impressive to my autistic brain how socially astute these girls are #sororities are like a strategy game and a lot of these girls know how to win

[smileyerim]

I was in the middle of writing a really hot Johnny smut and then I got distracted by rushtok and now I’m bored of it sorry besties 💔💔

#5 notes and I’ll post a preview tho #it was frat boy au too #Johnny smut #nct Johnny smut

[diana-prince-s]

i’m currently on bamma rushtok and i thought u would be the best person to bring my questions to, diana pronkus ❤️❤️❤️ what is bid day? what is a bump group? what is philanthropy? what is a legacy? can u really get kicked out for drinking/smoking weed even when ur legal age?

Hey Braddie, you’re right, I am the best person to ask. But I’m gonna start by saying that I didn’t go to a big southern school like Bama, definitely a smaller one with a lot of people from the northeast, and we have a high Greek population but it’s not as… intense as Bama. There were some girls though who went to those type of schools and either didn’t get into a sorority or didn’t get into a desirable one and transferred to my school to better their chances.

Bid day: a bid is the invitation that you get from a sorority to join them, so bid day is the day that everyone receives and opens their bids. It’s the day after sorority rush ends

Bump group: so a bump group is a more complicated explanation because you have to understand how recruitment works. The potential new members (PNMs) attend “parties” which are just short (though they get longer through the week) meetings with each sorority that they are invited to, and during a party one PNM will talk to at least two sorority sisters from that sorority. So say on day two you get invited back to Tri Delta and Theta. You’re gonna go to maybe Tri Delt first and talk to three Tri Deltas during that party, then you’re gonna go to Theta and talk to three Thetas. On the sorority side, they have already chosen, before the parties, which three sisters you’ll talk to. Those sisters will probably all have something in common with you, and they’ll probably have something in common with each other. That’s because the sorority is looking at what they know about your interests and trying to match you with girls that share those interests so you have something to talk about and so that you feel like you can “see yourself” there with people who are like you. So a sorority, depending on the size, will have a bunch of bump groups with like ten or so girls and it’s a whole big thing to try and create the bump groups with girls who kinda have similarities and who get along, and some groups are more “desirable” because they’re full of girls who are deemed more cool or more social, and people get really upset if they’re put in the weird or bad bump groups. There’s always drama

Philanthropy: this is just the charitable organization that the sorority supports. The whole thing with sororities is supposed to be that it gives college women a chance to do philanthropy and community service, but it’s never usually about that. Each sorority supports a philanthropy nationally and then each individual chapter usually has a local philanthropy that they support in their area, and they do this either through volunteering or fundraisers on campus. There’s a specific day of recruitment that sororities are supposed to devote to talking about the philanthropy that they do

Legacy: a legacy is a sorority woman who has had a direct relative who has also been in that sorority, whether in the same chapter or at a different school. There was some debate when I was a recruitment data assistant about who exactly is a legacy, because I think you’re only a legacy if your mother, grandmother, or sister was in the sorority, at least in the one I was in, so if you had a cousin or an aunt it didn’t count?? But I think sometimes it did. Being a legacy gives you certain advantages during recruitment, like you can’t be cut until the last day, if they’re going to cut you, or it adds like an extra “point” to your score. My former sorority recently abolished legacy advantages because they of course overwhelmingly help white women and disadvantage specifically Black women but mostly all women of color because they weren’t allowed to be in Panhellenic sororities until recently and are still systematically kept out, so they likely won’t be legacies.

Getting kicked out: so first of all, weed isn’t legal everywhere in the US so that may change the rules. But girl… sororities are parties. Like, I don’t know how to explain this exactly, but like… I recently saw a tweet or a tiktok or something from a Black woman trying to explain the differences between Panhellenic (historically white) sororities and NPHC (historically Black) sororities, and she said that Panhel sororities are a big deal when you’re in college, and NPHC sororities are a big deal for life. Like, if you ask a preppy white girl who wants to rush why she is rushing, she’ll probably say “I want to find a community of girls who will be my sisters for life! I also want to get involved in philanthropy during college and I want to join a network of alumni after school.” And like, those are benefits. I know someone who got an internship (and subsequently a job now) at a fantastic company because she met an alumni sister of our sorority at a networking event and had a way in, but that particular person was a Finance major and focused specifically on business. For someone like me who was studying film and the arts/humanities, there are far fewer alumni connections if any that I can contact for a job or networking opportunity. Personally, I did the bare minimum for our philanthropy, not because I don’t think it’s a worthy cause (and our cause specifically was very personal to me), but because we didn’t have a constant way to help, it was kind of on the back burner until we had our one big philanthropy event of the year.

My experience with my sorority, and sororities at my school in general, was entirely social. Very few 18 year old girls are looking to rush because they wanna support charity. They’re doing it because they a) want friends, b) want to be cool, and c) want to party. I joined because I made like two friends my freshman fall (we rushed in the spring) and I was very lonely. I went to parties sometimes, but honestly I have always struggled to create and maintain friendships with cis straight women (and I hadn’t plugged into my queer community yet) so all the people I hung out with at that time were boys mostly, and boys can’t get into frat parties. We had almost no way to get alcohol that wasn’t beer because we didn’t know any upper classmen. That changed drastically when I joined a sorority. Suddenly I was thrust into a pre-selected friend group of 40 other freshman girls who were just as overwhelmed and excited by the sorority process as I was, and 100 other women who were already friends, who scheduled three or four pre-games and Hall-crawls within my first week in the organization, many of whom were already 21 and offered to buy us alcohol and give us rides to places. We had mixers with frats so we were guaranteed rides to their parties when non-affiliated freshmen had to wait an hour for the pledge drivers to pick them up, if they even did. My big was the social chair so she organized our pregames and made sure the freshman had alcohol.

So to answer your question, there is so much underage drinking (and smoking if you’re into that). No one cares what you’re doing in your free time. What they care about is image. If you post on your social media that you’re drinking underage or doing drugs at all, they will call you into standards and ask you to delete it, they may give you a warning or put you on probation of some kind, it depends on how bad it is or how many times you’ve done this. But honestly, that could get you in so much trouble anyway. You could get kicked out of school for doing that. I know someone who lost a golf scholarship for posting a photo with a beer in her hand underage. The sorority just wants to make sure that they aren’t publicly connected with underage drinking and you act as a representative of the sorority, even on social media (which has gotten me in trouble several times before and I think is bullshit in many cases).

Otherwise, we couldn’t wear our Greek letters to parties (though we were encouraged to wear any other merch related to the sorority and we had color-coded converse that we wore and decorated) because that’s taboo, the Greek letters aren’t supposed to be associated with drinking. And any time we took photos at pregames or parties someone would always yell “cups down!” At other, more intense schools, if you’re caught by a school official or police underage drinking, I’m sure you could get in trouble or kicked out of a sorority but I guess it depends on the situation. They don’t like to be seen as party institutions even though they are

#this was fun to answer

[gamma-xi-delta]

What’s In A “Rush Bag,” And Everything Else You Need To Know About Sorority Season, Which Has Taken Over TikTok Recently One popular topic is the "What's in my rush bag?" format — where prospective sisters explain exactly what they are packing and prepping going into rush week.

#RushTok #sorority #sororitygirls #sorority girls #sororitylife #sorority life #sisterhood #greek life #go greek #philanthropy #sorority recruitment #panhellenic #orientation #sorority rush

[hummusxx]

pledgetok and rushtok always have some sort of GRIP on me istg😖😖😖

[fscte]

Couldn’t sleep this morning so I did what you do when you can’t sleep: read Anne Helen Petersen’s article on RushTok and Greek Life at the University of Alabama.

[sparrowlight]

[carsonphillips]

I spent too much time on bama rushtok and now I'm wearing 5 bracelets at once

[mikunziv]

RushTok has lost its novelty | Mashable

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