<p>Tulane is one of my 5 dream schools (also the least competitive). I love Tulane, and I want to go Greek. I heard that at Tulane the frat houses are small and that you don't actually live in them. I don't exactly understand what that means. I assume you still have parties in them? Is it inconvenient to not live in a frat house in which you are a part of the fraternity? </p>
<p>Ok make it 1 out of 4 dream schools, I really like Emory but it does have its drawbacks. Its not necessarily a dream school. </p>
<p>The sororities do not have living space except for a house caretaker, or something like that. More than one might be living in a typical sorority house, but I don’t think it is more than 4. They tell the same story they do at some other campuses that it was/is for more than a certain number of unrelated females to live in one house. I think that turns out to not actually be true, at least not any more, but I think the houses just don’t have the space.</p>
<p>The frats do have more space but it isn’t like at many schools where the houses are huge and many members live there. But they are very close to campus, and yes they most certainly have parties in them. Sorority membership has increased a lot in recent years, and I think frat membership has increased some as well, although a couple of houses were/are on probation recently. But from what I hear the remaining frats are pretty good and the Greek scene is certainly a presence at Tulane. As I usually put it, Greek life is active but definitely not dominant at Tulane. Greeks and non-Greeks mix all the time.</p>
<p>So to answer your question, it apparently is not inconvenient at all to live in the dorm but stay active in the frat. As I say, they are within a block or two of the campus, at least most of the houses are from what I recall.</p>
<p>Compared to a lot of other big southern schools, Tulane’s frat houses are small. However, people do live in them. Depends on the size of the house, but from the ones I’ve seen maybe around 10 (maybe more) live in the frat house any given year. However, what I’ve noticed that a lot of members of frats do is live in off campus houses together. So you have the official frat house with the letters on the outside, and then a bunch of other houses off campus with all members of the same frat, so it kind of becomes a “secondary” frat house. I’m not in a frat so I can’t tell you if it’s inconvenient or not, but all my friends in frats never mention it being an inconvenience. The campus is small so it’s never more than a 10 min walk from your dorm to the house. </p>
<p>I have two boys in a fraternity at Tulane, and neither one would consider not living at the house an inconvenience. On the contrary, neither one wanted to live there. And as jaco930 says, many live together with their fraternity brothers in houses off campus, or in the case of sophomore year, in suites with other fraternity members on campus. That is not to say that they don’t mix it up though. My older son is living off campus with a non-greek buddy this year. </p>
<p>Thanks for all the input on the question. Still sounds like I will rush if I do end up going to Tulane. Also it definitely cleared up the doubt I had. </p>