So many good fraternities, which one to join?
 

Alright i'm in an interesting situation and i need a little advice from the people here, i have been reading posts for the past few weeks looking for some information and i finally decided to register here and post my question.

I'm a freshman at the University of South Carolina (GO COCKS!), and i am going to be pledging this spring to a fraternity.

I have narrowed it down to Sigma Nu, Sigma Chi, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, or Kappa Alpha Order. All of them are pretty solid here, but i wish it was that easy.

I am originally from Georgia, and i wanted to go to UGA but couldn't get in, so i might try and transfer back there Freshman year. I'm also considering transferring to UVA, Duke, or Wake Forest.

So the question is, has anyone heard good things about these fraternties at any of these schools. I don't know where i want to go, so i want to be sure if i join a fraternity here i like and transfer, that i'll still be with a good group of guys i like, because i am not sure about my future plans.



I know thats an off the wall question, but if anyone has insight at any of these schools, please fill me in.

Join the house where you feel you fit the best. I'm sure those are all great houses. You'll have a great experience in any of them. Good luck with your choice.

I do believe Sigma Nu's current Grand Regent is from the South Carolina chapter -- Jay Pitts. Hell of a guy. Other than him, I've never really had much to do with any of their actives. I'm sure they're good people though.

ya they are, i know guys in all of them, mostly pledges from the freshman class. i think jay is actually from my hometown, marietta, GA. Assuming that the Grand Regent is the president, my friend who just went through in Sigma Nu told me that

Greek life is strong at SC, I have a hard time believing you will leave after a year. Most likely the school will grab you and you'll have too much fun and too many friends to leave behind.

Anyways, I can't speak on any but SN. Very strong at SC, Georgia used to be tops then lost their house (fire) and had tough years - but back and growing, UVA is our oldest chapter - so tons of tradition, don't know much more about them. Wake is a large chapter. Not sure about Duke.

lucky SC,

you need to check out the different GLOs and find the best fit for yo. All that you mentioned are great national organizations.

One thing else to keep in mind, if you do join one of them, you may find you really like S C and just stay there!:D


Good Luck!

I know the fraternities at Duke fairly well. I believe that SAE and Kappa Sig are the off-campus houses. The KAs there are great guys, gentlemen really. Sigma Nu seems to be a very good, all-around, involved house. Sigma Chi seemed very nice when my sorority had them over for dinner.

very good info guys, thankyou.

yea i actually did the fraternity Chi Psi the first part of the year there and they got put on probation and i ended up really not liking my pledge brothers, they were all from very different backgrounds and i didn't really relate to them. second half of the semester was really boring without the fraternity.

thats probably whats got me thinking about transfer, i guess first step is to find a fraternity i like in the spring, and then at the end of the semester i can think about transferring.

Problem: Just because you like, get along, and "have something in common" with the members of the chapter of your current campus doesn't mean you will like, get along, and "have something in common" with the members of another chapter of the same fraternity.

When I was an undergrad, my chapter was known for being laid-back and fairly low-key. Most of the members worked jobs because we had to, not because we wanted to. The other chapter in our state was known for being full of wealthy, well connected members. Although we got along and had a common goal through our fraternity, our chapters could not have been more dissimilar in personality.

Food for thought.

Duke info: Sigma Nu, Sigma Chi and Kappa Alpha Order are all on-campus fraternities that are recognized by IFC and have housing on campus. Kappa Sigma and Sigma Alpha Epsilon are no longer affiliated with their national organizations, in fact "SAE" is now affiliated with a different national fraternity. (Everyone at Duke still calls them "Kappa Sig" and "SAE", though.) They are both off-campus and, thus, do not have on-campus housing. I'm pretty sure "Kappa Sig" is also not associated with the national organization because they tried to go by a different name for a while. Anyway, if you were a Kappa Sig or SAE at USC and then transferred you would not be a member of either of these groups.

Heh, well there IS a Delta Upsilon chapter at SoCar :) and then you can transfer to my chapter at UF, I know how you dawgs love the Gators and all :D

haha i'm even more bitter towards them being a dawg my whole life. poor mcfadden

yea i know. i'm actually leaning heavily on Sigma Chi :). Most of the fraternities here are guys from southern backgrounds that are from south carolina or a neighboring state. I'm pretty confident though that i can make friends at any school i did transfer to, even if i don't connect to the chapter as a whole theres gotta be a few good guys in it.

i just wanted to get a general conception out of the ones i like at USC if they were good guys at the other schools.

all the info is very helpful guys.

if you are going to transfer and still pledge next semester than KA is a good choice if you are going to stay in the South as generally they are top-tier. SAE is also very strong and Sigma Chi has good chapters too

yea if i do transfer it will be purely for better academics at a business school and i don't plan on leaving the south until i go to grad school which will probably be in the north

where u go to school btw? the user name got me interested lol

*slight hijack*

Dude, you are going to one of the best business schools in the country and you want to transfer? :confused: I think you should stay at USC. And yes, I'm bias because I graduated from there.

*end hijack*

The other national is Alpha Delta Phi. They haven't been SAE for over six years. I believe that SAE is recruiting next year

SAE is starting a new chapter at Duke next year? That should be interesting and confusing considering everyone still calls the old SAE/Alpha Delta Phi guys "SAE"!

Just because you like one chapter at one school does not neccessarily mean you might like the people in another chapter if that makes sense. Yea, we should all love our brothers/sisters in other chapters, but you have to remember, each campus has it's own climate, and each chapter could possibly be different.

If you fit in with chapter at one school, you might not fit with a different chapter as their dynamics may be completely different than your first chapter.

Anyway, just thought I'd throw that out there.

true, nice name by the way :)

and i think i got a plan down to pat, i'm gonna stay at USC all the way through or until junior year and try to go to UVA for the McIntire school of commerce. As far as i know anyone of those fraternities is solid up there.

i think i'm worrying too much cause i'm the first kid in the family to go to college so i want to be as succesful as possible and not get caught up in partying.

appreciate all the info guys.

i'll give yall an update on what i choose to do come january after rush week.

Lucky, you are not the first of a family on here that went to college.:)

While you may feel you have a great plan laid out, 4-5 years can change a lot.

Just take one step at a time and see what develops!

First school, I wanted to educate. Second school, I changed to business.

So it do happen!:);)

yea i know.
i just don't want to dissapoint my parents for sacrificing so much.
i'm gonna join the national guard so they don't have to pay for anything.

you should have given chi psi a better chance..those boys rage pretty hard

^^^

...says the girl who calls herself a sorostitute.

Classy. :rolleyes:

My uncle is a Sigma Nu, and all of the other chapters you mentioned are at my University. I have friends in all of the ones you mentioned, I guess what you are looking for specifically would depend upon whatever school you decide to go to and the specific chapter.

just didn't fit, all i can really say in response to that

try d u at usc, those guys seem nice and its tinnier so you can really get to know the brothers

What does being metallic have to do with getting to know your brothers?

Well, bizarre word (tinnier) notwithstanding, I'm with you on this. DU's a good one :) One of my brothers went up to USC for the UF@USC game, had a good time with the Gamecock DUs, so that's cool. Also, the what, 5? 7? touchdowns by Tebow must have helped too.

haha screw you.

i went to the bars after that night, we were all so pissed off, all i saw at the bars was blue and orange, yall travel really well.

most of the fans were pretty classy though unlike the fans when i went down to athens for their game, got beer thrown at me and my friends when we celebrated our win at the end.

i know the bouncer at the bar the DU's usually host parties at though, and he let me in on their tap and they were REALLY pissed off at us lol. had a drunken talk to one of them at the urinal and they turned out to be cool guys, not for me though but cool guys none the less.

I think the guys i click with the most are the Sigma Chi's. Kappa Sig's i get along with a lot of the guys too but honestly i dunno if i could take their pledging, its def one of the most intense pledging in the South i can say pretty confidently from talking to guys.

You answered your own question then. Go for Sigma Chi. Good luck, pop.

once you get that reputation, it is hard to shake. even if the hazing reputation was earned decades before and has since been stopped.

Are these "guys" Kappa Sigs or non-Greeks?

Good luck getting an answer on that, but did you really need to post it SIX different times all over the site?

uw? university of wyoming? university of waterloo? university of washington? university of wisconsin?

University of WTF

A+++++++++.

lol!!

kappa sigs, i know 4 or 5 guys who just went through.
he doesn't tell me what goes on really at all, but he doesn't need to. the cuts speak for themselves.

i respect that he doesn't jab though or any of the guys i really know pledging in other fraternities, i wouldn't want my brother's telling non-greeks like myself before they pledged. You can just tell by looking at pledges that some of them in certain fraternities have cuts on them or black eyes that aren't from "falling down stairs"