<p>yea, sigma phi is definitely a low key fraternity. it's the same at uva as well. </p>
<p>dke, anthony's hall, elmo's hall, sig ep, phi psi are the big players here.</p>
<p>each fraternity has a personality, you just gotta find to one that's for you.</p>
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<p>Yeah that's one part of it. I don't want to be pledging with freshmen and sophomores. Another part of it is this whole 'bidding' thing. I feel like an object that is being bid for in an auction or something.</p>
<p>"upon initiation i am instantly liked to over 220000 men."</p>
<p>well, that seems kind of odd, they don't even know you and they suddenly like you? how bizarre to me, do you like all 200,000plus of those men? because you beong to a club with the same name, have never met?</p>
<p>isn't that kind of shallow to like someone based on membership to a club? sorry, but really sounds like "fake" like, if you get my drift</p>
<p>i believe that is a typo, and the word was supposed to be "linked" which I believe is true. You are linked to every one of them.</p>
<p>Some schools have gone to making Frats rush and so their recruiting thing during the spring semester, so it is possible that some are still rushing and recruiting in
April. U. of Colorado has recently gone to that I think</p>
<p>yo baller4lyfe, your just a sucka who didnt get a bid. you put the image or "buying friends" in your mind. thats probably why nobody wanted to be a brother to you.</p>
<p>citygirlsmom, you are kind of pathetic, i obviously meant to write that i am linked to 200000 men. lets put that college education to good use and exercise some decisive reasoning, i mean the sentence wouldnt have made any sense if it had been liked to 200000 men...</p>
<p>Whether the above (fitted's post) is true or not, it is comments like these and the one that started this thread that perpetuate stereotypes and continue to allow a wide divide to remain between Greeks and independents and to me its completely unnecessary.</p>
<p>Most of the frats and sororities at my current school are all at least slightly different from each other though the kids within each tend to be fairly cookie cutter and I have to laugh a little at claims of diversity. I suppose it could be true in other places. All in all, I think they're not such a bad thing, really. I mean, most kids naturally tend to stick with people with similar backgrounds and I suppose it could be a comforting thing to come into a huge campus of 30,000 students knowing there'll be a group of like-minded people with similar backgrounds to hang out with. I don't think it's so much "buying your friends" as it is seeking out an established place where you'll fit. I'm personally transferring to an arts conservatory in the fall where they take pride in having no Greeks, but if I were staying put, I have friends in Chi Omega and Kappa Kappa Gamma and would seriously consider taking a bid from either. It's something to do, right?</p>
<p>clemsonbo, how about we put our college reasoning to good use and learn how to type in the first place? you have absolutely no room to talk.</p>
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<p>A year or semester?!</p>
<p>It's almost 3K a year here for us (little more than $1,400 a semester), but if you can get to live in the fraternity house and be on the fraternity meal plan it ends up being a lot cheaper than being on campus.</p>
<p>Don't worry about the dues. I'm probably the poorest kid in my fraternity and I really couldn't afford the dues, but the brothers still wanted me in the house and said they'd do anything to make sure I was part of it (I was doing a sport, too, so they altered our event schedule to fit my schedule. . .I got really special treatment that I probably shouldn't have got). Our house has a treasurer and everything will be taken care of if you're like me and can't afford it.</p>
<p>almost 3k a year? if you don't live in the house you have to pay the same amount as someone who does?</p>
<p>i'm not in a frat (except for Alpha Phi Omega, which doesn't really count), but I do have greek friends, both in fraternities and sororities. Greek life isn't for everyone, and not all members of greek organizations are stuck up and isolated from campus (most aren't).</p>
<p>that's $300 a semester, although here at Brown the frat houses are clusters in the dorms on one particular quad, so that makes things very different. We also have financial aid for people who can't afford dues.</p>
<p>I'd love to call you an ignorant idiot for your completely unoriginal and pointless post, but there is some truth behind what you say. Yeah, i'm in a fraternity, and no I didnt do it for all the hot ass and the keg stands and the drugs and whatever else you people say. I joined because i felt like it was the best way to me to get involved in the univeristy i was in (if you have a pulse you can assume where i go) and a grat way to set up a netowrk of friends. i liked the brother when i was pledging, and i liked my pledge brothers. I liked them for 2 years, and now I don't. The fraternity has changed, some cool guys that liked to have a good time and drink to a bunch of pot smoking, **** talking 'sothern' faggots whose only goal is to impress other fraternities. Basically, I am glad i joined because it made me realize who i was and what i really wanted out of some of my friends. A lot of guys are just fairweather friends because you pay 475 to party together. Truth is, you cant be good friends with 75 guys, and you end up being really good friends with a smaller group. I wouldnt have found them otherwise, and id still be living in Cope otherwise. My 2 cents.</p>
<p>when can you join a fraternity or pledge one? I plan on pledging at Indiana.</p>
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<p>oh, COME ON. I guess you're smart enough never to make typoes. I bow down to your superior intelligence and excellent college education.</p>
<p>i appreciate it kirst... i wasnt gonna say anything. parikhs, rush is typically early in each semester, usually the first or second week. what fraternity are you interested in?</p>
<p>IU has both fall and winter rush (I'm from Indiana and have many friends who go there). The greek system is pretty strong, with a lot of great houses. The IU chapter of my house (DKE), SUCKS however and is the worst house on campus. (I go to Michigan). Don't join it! Otherwise watch out for recruitment information, as rush usually happens very early in the semester.</p>
<p>Frat responsibly...</p>
<p>Nirvana: i have a question. let's say you are a DKE in michigan, and you know nothing about the DKE chapter in IU (let's assume you are from Virginia and know the DKE chapter here @ UVa very well) Would you look at an IU DKE as highly as a UVa DKE (rich, powerful families)? like, would you let a random IU DKE stay at your house...etc?</p>
<p>I have no idea how to answer that question, since my house has only 8 chapters and each chapter knows each other chapter really well, so it feels like one big chapter. </p>
<p>when one national fraternity has over 100 chapters, do people start to discriminate against certain chapters? or start to have preferences?</p>
<p>I mean i think that most people would still open their door to help a fellow brother, but people definitely hold different chapters in different lights. For instance, my father (a past supreme national master, among many other positions) insisted that I pledge his frat (i'm not going to tell you all which it is, so don't ask) at whatever school I went to, (and he probably would have wanted me to found a colony if I went to a school without a chapter) however there was one school on my list that he said he would actualy discourge my pledging if I went there, because he didn't really think the kids at that particular chapter were really of that great caliber. I feel like he would still help one of them out, but he doesn't particularly like them like he does the kids at my chapter.</p>