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billionaire doesn’t equal not stupid.</p>
<p>it just depends on your definition of stupid.</p>
<p>The billionaires argument is irrelevant. A few dropped out and changed the world. </p>
<p>As for frats, they have too much negative images. I never once saw a frat on TV or movies that was defined as good. I always assumed it was like that until midway through my high school senior year so it was like a reality check for me.</p>
<p>1) I was joking.
2) I don’t hate frats or frat boys.</p>
<p>descuff,</p>
<p>it’s not “a few dropped out.” Greeks make up 8.5% of the population but make up 24% of fortune 500 CEOs (<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2003/01/31/cx_dd_0131frat.html[/url]”>http://www.forbes.com/2003/01/31/cx_dd_0131frat.html</a>) and while I don’t know exactly who is who, only 7% of the fortune 500 CEOs didn’t graduate college (<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/articles/2012/05/14/where-the-fortune-500-ceos-went-to-school[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/articles/2012/05/14/where-the-fortune-500-ceos-went-to-school</a>) so the vast majority of greek CEOs are not dropouts.</p>
<p>Not that any of this justifies being hazed (nothing does), but let’s at least tell it like it is.</p>
<p>^…Uh…
I’m not sure I understand.</p>
<p>I was just referring to the “Billionaires” statement not the whole Greek thing. As in go into college, and then dropping out. That’s it.
My point was that billionaires are not limited to being in Greek.</p>
<p>^my b. I assumed the original billionaires comment that you were responding to was just a poorly worded version of the statistic on fortune 500 CEOs who are Greeks. I would venture that those 500 CEOs have net worths close to, if not in, the billions, and is not a group that can be described as “a few who dropped out and changed the world.” (and I see now that that wasn’t your intention).</p>
<p>With regard to the statement that billionaires are not limited to greeks: of course not. But it does say something that the greek population is highly enriched in groups like politicians and high powered CEOs. Whether or not it’s due to skills learned or simply connections made is up to debate, but it’s certainly not just a coincidence.</p>
<p>If you are actually a junior in high school, I think you have a lot of other things to be thinking about other than rushing into a frat that you don’t even know about yet 2 years down the road.</p>
<p>@I_wanna: It’s cool. It was quite informative. </p>
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Isn’t fraternities suppose to be like what I like to call “add-ons” to your regular college stuffs and clubs. From what I heard, frats are designed to improve your life better than if you just go through college. I generally assume that is the reasoning for people being successful. Or the fact that they wanted to join frats for the above purpose…</p>
<p>All in the matter, I heard it is highly recommended at my school that you join a frat or find connections if you don’t want in.</p>
<p>I mean I agree with you. I am currently the Vice President of my entire grad school and I rely heavily on what I learned from holding various leadership roles in my fraternity. I also think that the fraternity helped me grow as a man in other ways too. I just can’t prove that the success seen on the large scale is due to that and not simply cronyism. It’s probably a mixture of both.</p>
<p>i read the wikipedia on hazing once. god. that’s ALL i needed to do to before i knew i could confidently place the collegiate hazing cohort in my carefully curated category for people denominated by “shupple”.</p>