A precocious schoolhouse elder from Quincy, Illinois, Shelby was 1 of the 4 PNMs (potential caller members) featured successful Max's Bama Rush documentary that deep-dives into the sorority strategy astatine the University of Alabama. Having competed successful pageants, Shelby was each astir being "classy, chill and calm" passim the process, adjacent making a binder and Google spreadsheets for her outfits. Naturally, she became an aboriginal favourite for #BamaRush TikTok, amassing much than 63,000 followers connected the platform.

But, aft connection got retired connected field astir the documentary, Shelby chose to halt filming prior to Rush Week.  Though we larn she got into her apical choice, Phi Mu.

After the trailer for Bama Rush dropped connected May 5, Shelby took to TikTok to reveal wherefore she left the project, explaining that "what they were doing did not align with my morals and values."

"This is thing that has made maine mentally and physically sick for a precise agelong time," she wrote successful the caption. "I americium thankful I near erstwhile I did and commune for each UA miss successful a sorority close now. I ever privation to dispersed a affirmative airy successful the world."

Shelby precocious finished her freshman twelvemonth astatine UA, wherever she is majoring successful nationalist relations with a insignificant successful integer contented engagement.

A precocious schoolhouse elder from Rancho Cucamonga, California, Isabelle admitted successful the documentary that she apt wouldn't beryllium going to the University of Alabama if "it did not stroke up connected TikTok."

"Being successful a sorority volition assistance maine fig retired who I privation to be," she explained. "I've ever needed a happening to beryllium a portion of arsenic portion of my identity. It's been hard for maine to find a consciousness of self-worth due to the fact that I don't truly cognize who I am."

Isabelle—who memorably coined the operation "nervited," a combo of tense and excited—filmed passim Rush Week, which culminated with her getting an connection from her apical house, Alpha Delta Pi. She is presently an advertizing major.

In a May 24 TikTok video, Isabelle explained she wanted to join Bama Rush to "share her communicative and to amusement what it's similar to beryllium a miss successful 2022." In the documentary, Isabelle opened up astir being raped astatine a precocious schoolhouse party, and successful her societal media post, she said she astir decided to driblet retired of the movie and Rush altogether aft her assault.

"I did not cognize however I was going to unreal to beryllium blessed and adjacent marque friends successful assemblage aft being wounded truthful bad," she said. "And (director) Rachel Fleit told maine each I had to bash was beryllium myself and she ne'er pressured maine to accidental thing astir my story. But I wanted to stock it due to the fact that that was, honestly, during Rush Week each that I could deliberation about."

Still, Isabelle continued, I made it through" and said she's recovered a enactment strategy successful her sorority sisters. 

Soft-spoken and quiet, the University of Alabama sophomore often seemed uncomfortable portion preparing to participate sorority life. So, it wasn't precisely astonishing erstwhile she decided to driblet retired during Rush Week.

Still astatine UA, Mikalya is studying for a grade successful criminology, a vocation way she was inspired to prosecute aft her father, who was a constabulary officer, died erstwhile she was 13.

A sophomore from Orange Beach, Al., Holliday was participating successful Rush for the 2nd time.

"I got into my sorority, I was surviving the dream," she explained. "And past I wore the incorrect sorority sticker and got dropped." As in, she enactment connected the letters of different location and was summarily shown the doorway from her sorority. Said Holliday of the experience, " Like, I would alternatively a feline archer maine I was disfigured than get dropped. It was truthful humbling."

Ultimately, Holliday decided to not to participate in Rush Week, though she is inactive pursuing a instrumentality degree. After winning Miss Orange Beach 2023, she precocious competed successful the Miss Alabama pageant.

Dubbed "the archetypal #BamaRush influencer," Gracie—who has 54,000 followers connected Instagram and 77,000 followers connected TikTok—was an progressive Pi Beta Phi subordinate erstwhile she appeared successful the documentary. She graduated with 2 degrees successful May 2022, sharing a photograph with her chap elder sorority sisters, writing, "thank you Jesus for giving maine the BEST girls to person by my broadside these past 4 years.

Since leaving the University of Alabama, Gracie has been documenting her travels astir the satellite connected societal media and has visited 63 countries and counting. 

When the trailer for Bama Rush was archetypal released, Gracie posted a TikTok video of her absorption to the footage. "I can't judge it, I americium virtually shaking," she said. "Wait, I benignant of emotion it!"

One of the unreserved consultants featured successful the documentary, Trisha inactive offers sorority recruitment tips done her business, It's All Greek to Me. A mentorship programme with her costs $3,500.

After Bama Rush dropped connected May 23, Trisha, who is joined with 2 sons, took to Instagram to accidental they did a "great job."