This cost is used to pay for upkeep of the house, community service, scholarships, intramurals, and the dozens of social events offered. The sooner you know more people, the more comfortable you will feel on campus. By joining in your first year, you will find adjusting to university life a lot easier. Most members who didn't join in there first year on campus, wished they had. Rush is the time when the fraternities seek and recruit new men to join.
Recruitment is the time for women to explore joining a sorority.
Rush and Recruitment do not cost you anything. Going to Open Houses, Rush or Recruitment functions or registering for Rush or Recruitment does not commit you to joining a fraternity or sorority. Bid Day is when you pick up your invitations to join a fraternity. The sororities utilize a mutual selection process where interested women indicate, in order, the organizations they are interested in joining and the organizations choose the women they are most interested in having as members. The selections are then matched together.