<p>How do you go about joining a Frat, do you get selected to or do you sign up, How is the frat life?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>You do not sign up to be in a fraternity, you get selected. There is a rush period where the different fraternities have events to get to know prospective members. If they like you and believe that you will be an addition to their organization you will get a bid that you can either accept or decline. After accepting a bid you become a pledge of that fraternity. You are not a full member yet that happens after the pledge period. Fraternity life is great I am a member of a fraternity at the University of Vermont and its awesome.</p>
<p>why exactly is fraternity life great? what are some reasons?</p>
<p>its more of a sisterhood/brotherhood kinda thing. you have friends to flock around with.</p>
<p>eh...i'm more interested in meeting the opposite sex nowadays.</p>
<p>Oh, well your frat has parties, and typically they make it real easy for girls to get in but not so much for guys...trust me, frat guys really don't have much shortage of girls...;)</p>
<p>Pack mentality.........group of buddies all wanting to be in a group. Not a bad thing just a different strategy.</p>
<p>do fraternities and sororities have parties together?</p>
<p>yeah, or a frat and a couple sororities. for example "join us jan 31st as we schmooze with the ladies of mu whatever and alpha something"</p>
<p>Fraternies and Sororities have socials together. There isnt just a bond btween the members of a specific fraternity there is a bond in the whole greek system</p>
<p>I think Wesleyan or some other liberal school has a, what did they call it, i forget, but it was a coed fraternity. It seemed kinda cool</p>
<p>I'm rushing NOW.</p>
<p>it's an intense process.</p>
<p>fraterniteis and srats have mixers, the chance to hook up.</p>
<p>My son started getting invites to different parties, dinners, etcs. but halfway through rush, the invitations stopped. It's not over yet, although he is convinced that it is becuase of the lack of invites. Do frats really know that soon who they don't want? Even though rush is 4 weeks, can they reallly decide after two weeks who they don't want? They haven't had enough time to get to know the kids. there are many frats and many guys...how can they know after just two weeks?</p>
<p>you'd be surprised how easy it is to know. If he gets to know 1 person in the house, and leaves a horrible impression, that person obviously will tell the rest of the house (hopefully in a extremely humorous and obnoxious way) how miserable the person is. the house in early rounds will either be swayed by the one or few peoples argument. also, (depends on the size/culture of a campus). at uva, a house really isn't looking for a pledge class of much more than 20. some of the houses will have 300 or 400 people show up for open house. you have to cut a lot of people loose in order to get to meet the rest of them. Yet if a house gets only 100 people at open house, they may be willing to keep you on a little longer hoping to see something in you they missed.</p>
<p>also, sometimes it's not about the impression you leave, it's about how many brothers have met you. hundreds of people show up at a particular house, and they are all well-liked Okay people, whoever talked to the most brothers have a better chance of surviving coz he;s more unlikely to not be liked by the rest of the brothers than the kid who only talks to 2 brothers.</p>
<p>I am rushing this one fraternity and people have been coming up to me and asking me if I am me (Sort of like Hey... you're ______, aren't you) even though I had never met them before. I assume that is a good sign :)</p>
<p>what do those of you who are currently brothers of a frat think about legacies? Do frats want them, not want them? Were any of you legacies yourself? My dad REALLY wants me to pledge his frat, and the only reason I'm hesitant is because I feel like it isnt my choice. (I mean technically, I can choose not to pledge, but I mean unless I ABSOLUTELY HATE everyone in the house, my dad will be EXTREMELY dissappointed)</p>
<p>Sorry for all the caps, I dont know how to do italics or bold or anything.</p>
<p>ur daddy is weird</p>
<p>Many houses feel compelled to take legacies.........also, if you stay in rush, get a bid and decline.....you may have to wait a year before you can go through the process again. While you sound uncertain, I am sure you dad had a positive Greek experience and wants you to also have a great experience. You need to speak up if this isn't for you.</p>
<p>Rush may technically be a 2-4 week period in the early spring (or fall) but it really starts the second you walk on campus. Brothers hound the freshmen class to try to "impress" them as much as possible so that they will come out to join them. So basically, if you don't know a significant portion of the brotherhood before you go to rush chances are greatly decreased that you'll get in.</p>