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Rushing at Arkansas

A recruitment tool for prospective members at the University of Arkansas: what each of the 36 chapters costs, how far it is from your dorm, and where its GPA actually sits.

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Built for the people going through recruitment this month rather than the people reading about it afterward. Pick a council, pick your residence hall, and all 36 University of Arkansas chapters sort by what they cost and how far you would be walking.

Twenty-three chapters publish dues. The fraternity figures are current and come from each chapter’s own page; the sorority figures come from the university’s 2022-23 financial transparency disclosure, the only per-chapter sorority disclosure UA has ever posted. The two are kept apart with their own dates rather than blended into one tidy number. The remaining thirteen read “not published,” because they haven’t. (There is also a $40 per semester university fee charged to every affiliated student on top of chapter dues, which is easy to miss.)

Walking times are real pedestrian routes along actual sidewalks and paths, from all 18 residence halls to the 25 chapters that have houses. Straight-line distance would be a lie here: campus sits on a hillside and is cut in half by Razorback Road, so a house 300 meters away can be a ten-minute walk. The 11 chapters without houses are left out of the walking numbers entirely instead of being handed a fabricated one.

Each council gets its own track, because they do not run the same process. Panhellenic and IFC get a live countdown and the round-by-round funnel. NPHC and UGC get an explanation that there is no rush week at all (intake happens on each chapter’s own schedule) instead of a fake calendar. GPA is plotted against the group it should be compared to, all sorority women or all fraternity men, rather than shown as a bare number.

The tool does not rank chapters. Every figure in it is a published number with a source and a date attached, which is the entire point of building it.