<p>Is joining a fraternity bad for your job placement and admission to grad school? I am talking about the social/greek/party oriented fraternities not the business or major oriented fraternities.</p>
<p>Depends on the school and what you actually do while you are in school. Certainly there are plenty of instances where joining a fraternity could HELP you with job placement.</p>
<p>My own fraternity chapter (at a StateU) - highly successful. More than half the guys in my pledge class have or will be receiving advanced degrees - 2 MD’s, 3 JD’s, 1 DDS, 2 Masters in Architecture, 1 CRNA, 2 PharmD’s, 4 MBA’s. Other pledge classes have similar numbers. </p>
<p>My medical school class is roughly a 1/4 Greek (that I know for certain). Considering that nationwide Greeks are only about 4-5% the student population, that’s a significant increase.</p>
<p>The thing is, at some schools, the Greeks are the ones who are involved on campus, taking part in student government, leading the student alumni association, helping recruitment efforts with the office of admissions, and therefore are getting those valuable leadership experiences that employers and grad schools are looking for (while still having a much better social life than the independents). But there are other schools where the greeks are much more worried about keeping their bongs filled and their parent’s credit cards maxed than on going to class or making their presence on campus known. You need to look at your school and figure out where the Greeks on your campus fall.</p>