Trisha Addicks
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“talk them out of their tree”
Trisha Addicks · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
Addicks noted that her team helps anxious parents during the recruitment process.
“All of a sudden, their daughter's calling them crying, and they want to help,”
Trisha Addicks · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
Addicks described how parents react when their daughters call them crying during rush.
“You're experiencing the chaos, the heat, the sometimes rain,”
Trisha Addicks · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
Addicks described one of the mock events her company runs in preparation for rush week.
“And then you are having real conversations with sorority actives and people who are my mentors who work with me. And it gets you an idea of what an actual rush party is [going to] look like, and it's a great preparer.”
Trisha Addicks · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
Addicks described the mock conversations and events her company runs to prepare students for rush week.
“It's because the parents and the families are seeing rush online, and they're wanting to come south, but they have no idea how to navigate it and that's what we do.”
Trisha Addicks · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
Addicks explained that families seeing rush online want to come south but have no idea how to navigate it.
“So, in my experience, which has been for 30 years now, parents don't really have any idea how much they're [going to] lose their minds when their daughters are in rush itself,”
Trisha Addicks · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
Addicks said she frequently acts as a referee for anxious parents when recruitment stress peaks.
“They get to the end, and they're like, ‘Okay, I should not have lost my mind.’ But I get it, I understand it, I'm a parent, but that's when the apology flowers come,”
Trisha Addicks · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
Addicks described parents' reactions after rush is over and the stress has passed.
“I have seen a big change in the geography of people who come to our company, and it's much more the Northeast, California, the Midwest, it's not the traditional southern families that are coming to us,”
Trisha Addicks · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
Addicks told Fox News Digital that viral southern rush videos are driving more out-of-state students to seek her services.
“The biggest misconception is that we're just telling them what to wear and telling them that they should be wearing certain brands or look a certain way, because that's not it at all,”
Trisha Addicks · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-27
Addicks addressed what she sees as the biggest misconception about her consulting service.