<p>How prevelant is the greek life? and do you have to live there freshman/sophomore year?</p>
<p>It’s somewhat established, but not too much. Most of the freshmen end up going to frat parties, but after that everything moves off-campus.</p>
<p>Also, I don’t think you’re required to live in the frat.</p>
<p>Perhaps a student can correct this if it is incorrect, but there are frat houses, but not sorority houses. The sororities are housed in dorm buildings because of some law in Pittsburgh. Many of the frat houses are up the hill by the Peterson Events Center, VA Hospital, and Sutherland dorm. Some freshmen move into frats second semester, but I do not know about sororities. Greek life does not seem to be a as big at Pitt as other large universities.</p>
<p>I think that is correct. You can see the frat houses if you visit PA Hall, Sutherland in the upper campus. The sororities are in the dorms.</p>
<p>ya, the sororities are in dorms because PA considers any residence housing more than 6 women (or something like that) to be a brothel.</p>
<p>So ya, they have to stay on campus for housing</p>
<p>You don’t have to live there freshman/sophomore year. MD Mom is correct–there are frat houses; however, the sororities are housed on-campus in Amos Hall. The inside of Amos Hall was recently remodeled last year, and while I haven’t seen it personally, I’ve been told that it’s really, really nice.</p>
<p>if you look for greek life on campus, you are going to find it. we are always running some kind of fundraiser with other fraternities or sororities. its definitely visible on campus. Amos does house just about all of the sororities, one is located in Bruce i believe, and then one other sorority has a suite off campus. Some fraternities are located off campus in north O or south O and then there is frat row which is up by Sutherland, PA and Panther. A lot of girls decide to move into Amos, into the suites their following year just because of how nice it is in there. You don’t have to live in the fraternity house if you don’t want to, but its always encouraged.</p>
<p>greek like is definitely prevalent on campus. you will see plenty of students wearing their letters(? i think that’s what they call them) and will meet many people who are in frats/sororities.</p>
<p>there are A LOT of fraternities and sororities at Pitt. Fraternities are housed on the hill (on-campus) and just as many are located off-campus about 1 mile walk maximum. i would say frat parties and regular house parties get 50/50 attendance from “partiers.” i.e. half go to frats half go to house parties.</p>
<p>The plus is that greek life is NOT dominant on campus. no one feels “uncool” if you don’t go greek and greeks don’t separate themselves from the student body by only letting certain people in parties or associating themselves with a select group of people. </p>
<p>sororities are in dorms (quad) and you don’t have to live in frat houses, but if you join you’ll probably want to by sophomore yr.</p>
<p>Everyone is right. Greek Life doesn’t dominate the campus, but there are a lot of people a part of it. It’s not like the Greek Life you see on TV. There are the business frats and the different types of “frats”. They are considered the professional frats. Then there are the traditional ones that people see on tv. It is not a campus run by frats. They are everywhere, and in packs, but they don’t go laughing at people who aren’t a part of frats. Its quite the contrary I think. </p>
<p>Some people on campus hate the frats because they charge $5.</p>
<p>I just wanted to say that the whole “sororities can’t have houses because more than X number of women living together is considered a brothel” thing is an urban legend. There is no such law.</p>
<p>Of the 11 NPC sororities at Pitt, 10 of them have housing in Schenley Quad and one of them has a house on, I believe, Bayard Street.</p>
<p>Actually, there is such law in Pennsylvania, that’s why it’s a dorm instead of houses. I have a lot of friends in Greek life, but they definitely don’t exclude themselves. The frats and sororities often have mixers, which are closed parties for just 1 sorority and 1 fra at a frat house, but they often open up to everyone later in the night around 11. Even if they don’t, frat parties are definitely no the only option, there are a lot of house parties in north/south oakland. about 9 frats are in on-campus houses up the hill and more are off campus, I think about 5 are on Dithridge street in North Oakland which isn’t too far. Joining greek life is a good way to make friends but definitely not necessary.</p>
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No, it’s a myth. They say this at a lot of colleges. I’ve found no evidence that it was ever true anywhere. I suspect the truth is that frats have houses because they have more money than sororities.</p>
<p>what if you already live in Lothrop and then pledge as a soph. Will there be a feeling of exclusion bc of not living in the “sorority dorms?”</p>
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