<p>I'm currently a freshman at UF, and I am rushing this week. However, rush week is way to brief to be able to know all of the fraternities, so I'm hoping I could get some advice. I guess if anyone has experience with a fraternity at UF, listing it would be helpful for me. Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>None. Fraternities are for feminine men.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that Sigma chi and PiKapp are good though. I wouldn’t join any.</p>
<p>My opinion: join a student club in your field of study and make friends through there and you can relate well cause you are in the same major or relatively close major.</p>
<p>Best of all there FREE unlike frats.</p>
<p>Fraternities at UF are very different from each other! Here are a few links that might help:
Take this site with a grain of salt:
[University</a> of Florida - UF - Greek Life - Fraternities - GreekRank.com](<a href=“http://www.greekrank.com/uni/31/fraternities/]University”>University of Florida - UF - Fraternities - Greekrank)
General site:
[UF</a> IFC](<a href=“http://www.ufifc.org/]UF”>http://www.ufifc.org/)</p>
<p>My S went through rush at this time 2 years ago. He got bids from 3 fraternitites that he heard were pretty chill (not rah rah)…Phi Taus, AEPi (jewish house), and Lambda Chi Alpha. He really liked the guys, but decided that his double major of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering would be too difficult a major to get super involved in a frat. Also, he didn’t like the grunt work that they make the pledges do, including driving drunk brothers home at 3 am. I mean the pledges are on call and they have to pick them up downtown Gainesville at any time of night.</p>
<p>jankrav I was in a Frat back in the late 70s and loved it. My son is now a sophomore also majoring in Engineering.</p>
<p>He found out during Rush week that there was no way he could swing both being a pledge and the challenges of majoring in Engineering.</p>
<p>I guess we both should be proud that our boys know what their priorities are??</p>
<p>Totally agree with gator4ever, if a student is serious about his/her academics and intends on a rigorous major-- pass on the frat scene.</p>
<p>Just my .02</p>
<p>I’m not in a frat, but just wondering why a lot of frats have average GPA’s of 3.3 or higher? I’m sure some of the guys in those frats are in some tough curriculums. Was thinking of adding engineering as a dual major. Is the time requirement for engineering that stiff ??</p>
<p>Just not worth the time really, even to get in is difficult I hear</p>
<p>I know somebody that rushed both Fall and Spring and didn’t get in, and the process to rush itself is very time consuming. Better off with just joining clubs and stuff</p>
<p>gator4ever–Same for me—I was in a sorority in the 70’s too and loved it! I would recommend it for most students if they would like to pledge. However, next to none of the frat guys my S met during Rush 2010 were engineering majors. I think all the Calculus, Physics, Chemistry, etc. is a lot to balance your first years in addition to all the activities that you must be at the fraternity/sorority house for as a pledge. Some kids don’t have to study so hard, and can possibly handle everything on brain power alone. But, most engineering students really work hard at their academics if they are going to make it (Pre-Med, too). I kind of like to think of it as a pay now or pay later deal. Want to major in a “fluffy” major and have a great social life in college? OK. Maybe you won’t get a job in that fluffy major (pay later). Want to work really hard and get a good gpa in a desirable major with a good job market and skip a party hard college life style? You are paying now and hoping to get that great job later. HOWEVER, there is much to be said for Greek Life and it’s pluses: great, lifelong friendships, networking with alumni, wonderful “resume padding activities” that naturally come with Greek Life(officerships, participation in Dance Marathons, service projects, etc.) Really, it is a hard choice between going Greek and not. Good luck, Dakota!</p>
<p>jankrav funny you should mention dane marathons. I participated in one spring 77 at Nichols Alley. It was sponsored by the kidney research group at UF and GatorAde.</p>
<p>I slept all day the next day. If an engineering student slept all day today he or she would be in trouble.</p>