<p>If you aren't in a frat? I'm not sure whether I want to join one as a freshman. I'm not planning on being a party animal but I do want to occasionally go to them on weekends.</p>
<p>Well, it depends.</p>
<p>Most frats have ratios. Usually the ratio is 3 girls for every 1 guy, but I have seen them go as high as 10 to 1. You will most likely need to pay $5 as well.</p>
<p>House parties have no ratios (usually) and as a guy you pay $5. The problem here is that it ends up being a sausage fest most of the time.</p>
<p>I will say this, however. Although Rutgers is seen as a party school, the parties here are actually terrible. Ratios are annoying. The houses are small. The parties are often packed to the point where you can barely move, they are worse then a packed bus. The drinks are very diluted, thus requiring a pregame. Cops often bust the parties. Wanna play beerpong? Get ready to stand in a long line. It’s extremely hot inside, and usually very cold outside. But bringing a jacket is a bad idea because you are guaranteed that you will lose it. The list goes on…</p>
<p>It is fun for the first few times, but after a while it becomes a chore.</p>
<p>So I guess I’m better off just finding a few people to hang out with then going to these crappy partiea</p>
<p>lol I was just about to post a thread like this, i kind of did too…lol</p>
<p>P.S the ratios are very important considering that the girls can dance with one another and if it was a room with a lot of dudes, they cant dance with each other so it will be a push around to dance with the few girls which would probably leave after they see a the guys acting like dogs. That is what happens I am quite sure but not certain.
so the true question is whether it is easy to get the 3 girls or not?</p>
<p>Are the ratios that strict?</p>
<p>jpstevens summed it up pretty well. At times you can talk or deal your way in, as I hear it from my son, but as he tells it - like jp the parties are pretty lame after awhile. For someone who isn’t outgoing or has no real swag to get and stroll up with the ratio needed ones ego can take a beating and you are literally left out in the cold.</p>
<p>how do you find out where the party is gonna be?</p>
<p>My son went with his roommate to a frat party once and they wanted $20 which I am not sure either one had. So they just stood there for awhile and the guy let them in. </p>
<p>When I went to (very few!) frat parties in college, they were totally crowded, smokey and dark. And you couldn’t hear the person next to you. Are they still the same? I didn’t really like going.</p>
<p>The parties here are big and they happen often. It def is a party school but yes, the parties suck and people take the ratios seriously. It can also be incredibly difficult to get to the alcohol. If you can hardly move because its so crowded, everyone is hogging the beer, and you cant even hear the person next to you whats the point? And as a woman the ratio is annoying. I dont get dressed up to just be around a bunch of girls…If you are 21, you are better off going to a bar with a few friends or a house party as others suggested. I wouldnt call the house parties sausage fests…they just dont have that ridiculous 3:1 ratio the guys are used to. Its a more even ratio.</p>