<p>What is the greek life like at WM? How spirited are the fraternities/sororities?</p>
<p>W&M is approximately 1/3 greek. The Fraternities are currently going through a rough patch with their campus housing, but the school is working with them to try to find a solution.</p>
<p>if you are looking for the big southern greek scene, you won’t find it at W&M (just like you won’t find the huge party scene with solo cups all over the entire block sunday mornings). But you will find tightly knit groups that don’t seclude themselves from the rest of campus. The fraternity parties are generally open to anyone. I had many friends in both fraternities and sororities, and I had nothing to do with the greek social scene.</p>
<p>Would you say then, that whether one is in a frat or not that it is easy to make friends and feel a part of the community?</p>
<p>definitely. the most important way to feel a part of the community is to be involved outside of academics. That means different things to different people. Whether it’s playing an instrument in an ensemble, singing in an a capella group, being in a fraternity or sorority, going to all the sporting events, joining a community service group, playing frisbee with your freshman hall, playing a club sport, playing intramurals, go out with your friends to parties on the weekend, stay in a hang out with the people on your hall, etc…</p>
<p>W&M students are generally very nice and open to meeting new people. The best way to meet new people is 1. your freshman hall and 2. clubs/activities (b/c here you will have things in common). You can also meet people in your classes, but generally that is just polite chatter before class starts, and usually people peace out when class ends to get where they are going. Some freshmen seminars become fairly close though. I kept to myself in most of my classes, so (1.5 years after graduation) I probably only have 2 friends that I keep in touch with that I met during class? All the other people (which is, a significant amount) I keep in touch with are from my music ensembles, freshman hall, and other activities.</p>
<p>Thanks, Soccerguy. I am a parent and my son would be playing tennis if he came to W&M, so it sounds like that would also be a kind of ready made groups of friends. Neither of my older kids attend schools with frats, so it is good to hear that at W&M it is very inclusive. Thanks again for responding.</p>
<p>no problem revbon. I expect he would be very close with the team and his freshmen hall, and kind of branch out from there. Obviously being on the tennis team would take a lot of his time.</p>