<p>Great thread. I’m a high school senior applying to colleges this year. While Cornell is not my first choice I would still be psyched to go to this school. </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>@jojo life is essentially high school, I don’t know what you mean by that though.</p>
<p>Yes there are groups of Koreans, one likes to stand outside my window and smoke at night.</p>
<p>You can be religious and Greek, I’m a frosh so I’m not Greek yet but I’ve talked to several religious brothers. I think whether you’re okay with that is more your personal choice.</p>
<p>there are plenty of people who are quite religious and greek. greek life is what you make of it first of all, you can be as involved and as uninvolved as you want. you can only do the philanthropy events and not go to too many mixers, or you could only go to mixers, you can live in or not live in for sophomore year, its really up to you. i dont really know how greek life would interfere with your religion at all though.</p>
<p>is it okay to rush sophomore year if you’ve decided a little late that you want a more lively social scene? are any sororities closed to rushing sophomore year? i’m not sure if i want to rush. i like to party and want the social network that comes with being greek, but i’m not the type to ever consider dying their hair blonde.</p>
<p>you can rush sophomore year no problem, but its like 20x harder to get a bid to the house you want. it doesn’t interfere the first few rounds but later with the girls start thinking about what percentage of their pledge class needs to be living in and how many sophomores they like, it could be a problem, most sororities have pledge classes of say 40-50 and don’t want more than 5ish sophomores.</p>
<p>oh also i think most people figure out by december whether they want to rush. like it just depends, if you really enjoy the frat party scene you should probably rush, because its hard to continue in that scene if you’re not in a sorority. (although idk how it works now since they aren’t having open parties for freshman, i’m abroad so idk exactly how the social scene is working with the changes this semester). you could always rush and drop out if you hate it, i know a bunch of people who did that. you could also drop out anytime until you’re initiated which is in like late feb/early march or something, less common but still possible.</p>
<p>and you have to remember these are sororities at cornell—they arent the same as ones at state schools down south–and nearly everyone at cornell was nerdy in high school in some way, or they wouldn’t be there. so everything is skewed from that perspective. yeah these girls for the most part like to party but probably 70% of them never ever would’ve thought they’d want to join a sorority, i know i didn’t. there are a couple of houses that definitely have that omg blonde girl vibe, but thats like 2 out of 12 houses. so keep that in mind too</p>
<p>Are the greek parties really exclusive? I want to party but i’m not sure about joining a sorority. Is it really difficult to get into a party if i’m not in the greek system?</p>
<p>There are restrictions on when freshmen can go to parties, but the parties are not nearly as fun as they used to be. It all started to die away last year with the constant rule implementations.</p>
<p>Honestly, though, if you know someone well enough at Cornell in a frat, you’re probably set. And you’re an (attractive) girl, it’ll be a lot easier to go just about anywhere.</p>
<p>As you can probably tell, I’m a little sickened by the partying scene nowadays. It’s too bad I can’t go to meet people at a social place like a bar yet.</p>
<p>Can you rush a sorority as a junior? I am going to be a junior transfer, but I will probably stay for 3 years instead of 2.</p>
<p>Probably won’t happen. It rarely happens for sophomores either.</p>
<p>Really? Even southern schools take juniors.</p>