UVA Greek Life

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<p>I was accepted to UVA in January, I am seriously considering it for the next four years of my life. I know nothing about greek life, and I know it differs from school to school, but how important is greek life at UVA? I definitely would be in the partying crowd (I'm smart, but not a loser). I want to have a really fun time at college, and I am wondering if having a good time requires being in a sorority? Also, are sororities seriously time consuming? I know some of my older friends at schools like Penn State spend all their time doing things with their sorority (like making gifts for their Bigs and stuff like that). I don't want to be a part of greek life if my studies are going to suffer.</p>

<p>Thanks for answering!</p>

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<p>My daughter belongs to a sorority at another college. She has mandatory study hours inside her sorority many nights. </p>

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<p>About 70% of students at UVa are NOT in a Greek organization. There are some students who make their fraternity or sorority a priority and will say that their events dominate the social scene, but that really isn’t the case. </p>

<p>[url=&lt;a href=“- @UVA”&gt;- @UVA]There</a> are 1049 organizations on the books<a href=“not%20all%20are%20active…I’d%20venture%20that%20about%20800%20are%20active”>/url</a>. There is A LOT going on here outside of events put on by Greek orgs.</p>