<p>Here is some insight to sororities at Rutgers -- STAY AWAY unless you don't care about your academic success and are only in school to party and spend time doing sorority functions. The amount of pressure they put on you and your schedule to attend mandatory functions is terrible. It's terrible that they don't value your college success in this day and age when tuition is incredibly expensive! In reality, they should be paying you for all the time you have to commit to them, not the other way around. The truth is they are care only about the their organization's life and not about yours. It's such a shame that this is the way sorority life has become because when my mom went to school this business of hundreds of mandatory functions and FINES and PROBATION when you can't attend were not in existence.</p>
<p>Please provide some specific information about this so that your conclusion sounds credible.</p>
<p>Specific information would include specific organization names which I cannot provide without repercussion. I can state that this is situation exists on almost all college campuses with Greek life, not just Rutgers. It is the way Greek Life has evolved over the past 20+ years. For verification, I would suggest those interested in Greek Life ask pointed and specific questions regarding time commitment prior to making their own commitment.</p>
<p>Yeah… i heard sororities do some crazy and kinky initiations… </p>
<p>You all make me laugh, I am in a sorority at the University of Texas and our GPA is almost a full point higher than the average GPA campus wide. Of course we have a lot of activities, functions and fun, but I would say most girls know when it is time to study and get things done(maybe it is those mandatory study hours the sorority requires). I know at UT the Greeks as a whole have a higher GPA than non Greeks. So ultimately it is up the the individual to decide if they want to be a Greek and can manage their schedule to accommodate both their social and academic life. </p>
<p>I think she has a good point about looking at the time commitment required. They may require weekly meetings, specified community service hours, party hosting duties, etc. All adds up to a lot of time that students may not be aware of. </p>
<p>It depends on the sorority and your major. I had to resign from my sorority under great pressure from the chapter president because my engineering classes were too tough to skip out on homework three times per week for hours at a time.</p>
<p>It can work out, but not if you are very committed to other activities, unless you play sports and find a sorority that caters to athletes.</p>
<p>Sorry about the resignation Rhandco, we have a specific board in place to review absences from mandatory events and academic commitments always come first. However, in truth missing all events due to academic commitments would eventually need to be discussed simply to try to figure out how to make the situation work out. We have many girls who are working on difficult majors CS, EE, ME, Pre Med and such. They all miss events from time to time.</p>
<p>Ironically, I was visiting my brother who is in a fraternity at Vanderbilt this weekend and he was say saying that over half of the seniors who graduated last year had jobs prior to graduation through his fraternity alumni affiliations. I believe his fraternity’s mantra is basically study hard and party hard and if you can’t do both study first. I’m not saying the greek system is for everybody but it does have a lot to offer just like many other campus organizations. However, I can attest that most organizations will require some sort of time commitment to realize what ever personal benefit you are trying to gain. </p>