What do med school adcoms think of fraternities and sororities?

<p>I'm just curious whether the admissions committees at various medical schools view fraternity and sorority involvement positively, negatively, or neutrally.</p>

<p>Depends on what you do with your involvement.</p>

<p>A sizable portion of the classes at my school (~25-30%) including myself were in fraternities. And I know a lot of people at another state medical school who are greeks as well.</p>

<p>The thing is, you have to show that your fraternity or sorority was beneficial for you in making you a better person. You need to either have serious leadership experience either within the chapter, or if you did a lot more out of the chapter at least point to the fraternity or sorority as a catalyst for your involvement. You can also talk about how being a chapter helped you in learning how to deal with people. But if you just list your organization on the Post-Secondary experiences sheet, with no explanation or evidence of positive gain, it won't help you...but that's true for pretty much anything you might list.</p>