This anxious annual ritual, more than half a century old, combines elements of fraternity rush, draft lottery, college admissions and awards show.

Busloads are forgoing fraternity rush and heading directly to exit strategies.

It's like a fraternity rush.

The process is similar to fraternity rush: Each party can interrogate the other, but the organization ultimately decides who can join.

Every fall each laboratory in Harvard's chemistry department holds an open house for the incoming graduate students, a high-end version of a fraternity rush.

His career began in 1895 when as a student he documented in one hour with 60 different remarkable images the first fraternity rush at Stanford University.

Other tribulations are to include the anxiety and anguish of fraternity rush and of leaving one's family and cultural surroundings.

Virginia has postponed the fraternity rush from fall to spring semester of the freshman year to let students explore other options for campus life.

To market the Mylo, Sony has created a Web site called Rushmylo.com, a simulation of fraternity rush week.

"It's like fraternity rush," my husband said.