<p>how hard is it to meet people? Im going to be a possible soph transfer, prob not gonna get on campus housing either so?</p>
<p>whats the party scene? bars? frats? house parties?</p>
<p>allot of indian/asians?</p>
<p>lol there is a sorority for indian man
u will meet lots of ur brothers there</p>
<p>the party scene definitely centers around frats (this goes for house parties too for the most part) and the bars if you're into that scene and have a halfway decent fake ID. living off-campus does make it hard to meet people, so if you want to get involved, join a club or something of interest to you, or get involved with greek life.</p>
<p>a sorority is for females dip****, a frat is for males and the south asian frat is Sigma Beta Rho(planning on joining myself). hoping to head to UMCP too, freshman though</p>
<p>india, sigma beta rho is a great frat, but there's also iota nu delta you might be interested in checking out (and possibly others, but that was another south asian one that came to mind).</p>
<p>yeh ive heard about Iota nu Delta, but my cousin is in Sigrho and i know a lot of the sigrho guys from FL soo prob going to end up doing sigrho, sigrho is also far larger than iota nu delta.</p>
<p>after being here as a freshman for a semester, i've noticed a LOT of dorm parties, frat parties, and...frat parties. all us young ones don't have fake IDs yet, so no bars.</p>
<p>and i'm an asian. with asian friends. so there's a good amount of asians. and i've seen indians too. umd is pretty diverse.</p>
<p>there are LOTS of Indians.</p>
<p>my brother is part of an Indian frat(Iota Delta Nu) there and says umd is pretty much infested with desis haha.</p>
<p>Sigrho is better the Iota Delta Nu, more diversity and larger</p>
<p>and just cooler in general</p>
<p>yeah that's great</p>
<p>k usualli ihangout with white ppl not planning on doing an indian frat, dont see the point of hanging out with people just becuase they share my skin color.......</p>
<p>any good suggestions for off campus housing?</p>
<p>nobody was suggesting you should join an Indian frat. You asked about Indians/Asians and the fact that UMD has asian frats is a true testament to its cultural diversity. got it?</p>
<p>and just cuz you join the frat doesn't mean they'll be the only people you hang out with.</p>
<p>and it isnt an indian frat there are people from other countries outside of india, pakistan, sri lanka, bangladesh, there are some from china, korea, vietnam, africa, european etc</p>
<p>frat / sorority are good but they are bad too.
You need to follow what they're doing. From what I heard, top companies don't like students from frat/sor for some reasons. </p>
<p>It's a good way to meet people and get parties and stuff.</p>
<p>well it depends on the frat/sorority and wat you do within it, if your like a volunteer chair than it def cant hurt you, if your an officer and the frat does various community activities than it can help</p>
<p>i never said anyone was suggesting it, just saying that i dont believe in that..</p>
<p>chaoses, you are completely wrong. in fact, according to information you can find on many different university greek life websites (though not UMD's)....</p>
<ul>
<li>70% of those listed in "Who's Who in America" are Greek. </li>
<li>85% of the upper-level executives in the "Fortune 500 Companies" are Greek. </li>
<li>43 CEOs of the top 50 U.S. companies are Greek. </li>
<li>75% of the members of the U.S. Congress are Greek. </li>
<li>85% of the U.S. Supreme Court Justices this century are/were Greek. </li>
<li>100 of 158 of those who have served on the Presidents Cabinet this century are/were Greek. </li>
<li>All but 3 of the U.S. Presidents since 1825 have been Greek. </li>
</ul>
<p>so i think it's safe to say that your assumption is completely unfounded.</p>
<p>btw tough guy, dont ask me if i "got it", im not a fking moron</p>