<p>“Frankly such people would simply not have gotten in to MIT (and indeed the average Frat GPA has remained stubbornly higher than the average dorm GPA).”</p>
<p>I think one of the reasons they were so anti-intellectual and paranoid about being nerds is because they were intellectual in high school. They were pretty self-conscioius about it, moreso than a real beer-swilling frat guy from a state school–because that guy wouldn’t care so much about it either way. The MIT frats tend to attract middle-of-the-road people academically, not the worst students but not the best. I wasn’t saying they don’t do ok in class.</p>