Do Australian universities have stuff like Greek Clubs and societies. How about college sports?
Do students socialize much?
You’ll find that Greek life and college sports are pretty uniquely American. Why do you want to go to college in Australia?
I have family there.
Are you saying that people in Australia aren’t very sociable?
What??? No. There are sociable people in every country. But Greek life and college sports are things exclusive to American schools. If you want a “traditional American” college experience, stay in America. If you go abroad for school, there will be parties and social events for sure, they just won’t be frat parties or sports games.
Why did this get moved to the UK forum?
*Was it moved? I am moving it back then. Australia is not part of the UK, although the error is understandable. From Wikipedia
I have no idea why the absence of Greek life can be connected to lack of sociable people.
Australia is very much like uk study. For international it is much easier to get in than domestic. You do have clubs, like for me I’m going to Melbourne for 6 months before I go to USA for study and in Melbourne there are 500+ clubs you can do such as meat club where free bbq. If u go to different colleges such as I’m going to Ormond u can consider it basically like a Greek in which we vs other colleges in sports and stuff. tbh Australia and nz schools are much more modern than USA and uk
Studied in both. Australian universities that are substantially residential are equally sociable, even more so perhaps. They don’t have a Greek system, which AFAIK is unique to the US, but many of the larger unis have residential colleges, which offer somewhat similar activities. Lots of sports, including Cricket, which is huge throughout much of the world (though a few US colleges, such as Wooster, have teams).
In the large Australian cities, check out the International Houses, which are great places to live.
You have to be ready for the culture shock; just because Australians speak English doesn’t mean it’ll be similar to US culture, not just in “visible” ways but, more crucially, in “invisible” ways. For instance, rooting for your college team isn’t how “school spirit” is created, this is a uniquely American approach. It doesn’t mean there’s no school spirit - just that it’s expressed differently.
It seems that freshmen tend to me more mature. Drinking isn’t treated in the same way AT ALL. The overall academic level is better than the average level in the US - imagine if only students with 4 AP’s were allowed to go to college in the US, this is a bit what you’d find in Australia.
@paul2752 I think it’s not entirely that. I mean, probably TS thinks that it is an international thing, greek life.
Australia seems like a competitive country to begin with though as said by some members they’re probably not that into greek life of maybe they just have another term for it?