<p>Is there a general rule of thumb that most fraternities go by about moving into the house? I'm going to join a fraternity next semester, and obviously this is something I'm going to ask them, but for now, I just want to kill my curiosity. Is it a first come first serve? Do they pick who gets to live in the house? How does it work for most frats?</p>
<p>It generally will vary from campus to campus and chapter to chapter. At my school, chapter houses are huge and hold most sophomore/junior members, and seniors/some juniors live out of the house. If the house isn’t big enough to hold a lot of people, it could be based on seniority, a points system, or younger members live in/older members live out. Without knowing the campus, it’s hard to give a catch all rule</p>
<p>so living in a Greek house is not required for most places?..I’m thinking of rushing this fall as a freshman, but I already paid my $3k on housing & plan to live in my freshman dorm…but I’m not quite sure if all fraternity people had to live in Greek housing when housing is offered…</p>
<p>For all the questions above it depends on the fraternity no one will be able to give you a straight answer.</p>
<p>just watch animal house
no seriously (funny movie to watch by the way) but depends on faternity, sometimes university, etc</p>
<p>@TracyJackson–Depends on your school. Only freshman pledges of one fraternity on my campus live-in the fraternity house, the rest don’t move in until sophomore year after they’re initiated. Doing some brief UConn research, your houses only hold either 15 or 30 members, and I’m guessing most of your chapters are over those numbers (Beta’s website has profiles for ~45 brothers). Obviously somewhere people need to be cut from chapter housing</p>
<p>Plus let’s be honest, do you really want to be living in the house when you’re pledging? That’d be the ultimate hell</p>
<p>At my school, all freshmen have to live in freshmen dorms. You can move into your sorority or fraternity house as a sophomore.</p>
<p>Most freshmen live in the dorms and some unlucky ones are forced into off campus housing. I have never heard of freshmen living in a fraternity house, just because they aren’t initiated yet! Living next to actives as a pledge would just be hell as you could consider yourself the permanent maid/chef… Anyways, as to housing.</p>
<p>In my fraternity our house holds around 25 people and every active (initiates who are active in the fraternity) are eligible to live in the house. By default this means that you would be a sophomore or higher. Rooms are given to whoever was initiated first or who has been an active the longest, it’s never a first come first serve. Say you are a sophomore trying to live in the last space in the house, but a senior also wants to live there. Obviously it’s going to go to the senior.</p>