<p>Can you be in both a frat/sorority and an eating club?</p>
<p>I know that Princeton really downplays the existence of the greek scene; I really thought it was nonexistent...what percent of the students are involved in frats/sororities?</p>
<p>I'd say about 15% is involved in frats and sororities.<br>
For sororities, there are 3 sororities each taking about 30 freshmen each year. sorority rush is organized and done all together at the end of september. </p>
<p>fraternities are a bit more disorganized. there are between 7-10 fraternities depending on who you ask. rush is not unified and is done whenever the fraternity wants to. fraternity pledge for the most part is awful. the fraternities will have dorm room parties at the beginning of the year in order to start their rush process. once pledge starts (october) the parties end. and the eating clubs take over the social scene. fraternity pledge classes are usually never more than 10 people. </p>
<p>fraternities and sororities on campus exist for two reasons. one: to get to know upperclassmen and do social functions with them and the more important reason: to get into certain bicker eating clubs. certain fraternities, like certain sports teams feed into certain bicker clubs. the same applies to sororities (but less so). </p>
<p>last year princeton tried to discourage freshmen joining greek organizations by senidng a letter to freshmen parents in august--the result, larger pledge classes at every fraternity and larger pledge classes at the 3 remaining sororities (tridelt disbanded last year b/c nobody joined). </p>
<p>joining a fraternity is a HUGE time commitment and a HUGE negative academic commitment. a sorority isn't as bad. opinions on campus range on teh greek life. there are many peopel that hate the frats/sororities and some that like them. when you get to campus you will know if you are the type of person that should be greek. however, since so few people are greek, it is certainly not part of the quintessential princeton experience (like eating clubs are).</p>
<p>Yeah, in fact a lot of the frats seem to be feeders into particular eating clubs. A friend of mine is a hardcore sorority girl (at least from what she tells me, haha), and she says that the Greek scene is there (and happening) if you look for it. It depends on what type of people you hang out with.</p>
<p>But the frats and sororities don't have their own houses, do they? So you'd still live in your dorm room and just have dorm parties?</p>
<p>frats and sororities do not have houses. they have parties in quads and the larger suites (esp in Wilson). its just dorm parties and the parties are just for rush (for the most part). you will find out about them via email (and perhaps now via facebook). some put up posters. news of the parties spreads via word of mouth. usually during orientation week and through sept the frat parties go from 10-1130sih and then everyone goes to the street. frat parties are popular during orientation week because the eating clubs cannot let people inside until fall lawnparties (first sunday after classes start...i think 9/18 this year). therefore their parties are outside on the front and back lawns. kegs in the lawn and a ton of people. hopefully it doesn't rain. so no dancing/beirut/loud music until after the clubs open up</p>
<p>oh sweet. alcohol and tons of people who don't know each other. thats my type of situation!</p>