<p>I'm an in state PA student so I'm 99% sure I have the grades to get in. I loved the school when I visited last Spring. I just have heard one problem when talking to people at PSU-</p>
<p>I definitely would like to attend parties and drink at college but I would prefer not to join a fraternity. So many people I have talked to say that if you don't join a frat you might as well not go PSU. How true is this? I've talked to people that disagree with this but they seem like losers for the most part.</p>
<p>Also, did anyone go to PSU not wanting to join a frat but ended up joining one? What made you join?</p>
<p>Frat = fraternity = where all the drinking, alcoholic events and stupidity occurs.</p>
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o many people I have talked to say that if you don't join a frat you might as well not go PSU.
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<p>That's a load of crap. Most people I knew hated frat parties and went to house parties instead, which they claimed were a lot better. If you're a fan of partying you don't need to join a frat. There's plenty of other options. It's Penn State after all.</p>
<p>I do not plan of joining a frat at this time, but I do intend on making some close friends of some of the brothers in various frats. I do like house parties better, but sometimes it's fun to just head out to a frat with a couple hundred of other people.</p>
<p>You can easily survive Penn State without joining one. I think less than half of the students go Greek, so what do you think the other students do?</p>
<p>The thing about PSU greek life, though, is that with 50 some fraternity chapters (at least last time I counted), not all fratenity brothers are stereotypical Abercrombie meatheads. I know a bunch of guys in frats that never pictured themselves joining one but changed their minds when they met guys from a house that they really clicked with.</p>