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Originally Posted by jacobqb
Is it advisable to include your fraternity membership and offices held on a resume or application for graduate school if you either resigned from or were expelled from the chapter? I am going into my senior year and am relatively sure that I just don't have the energy to put another year into it so I think I won't be returning to the house, but I definitely want to include my membership and the numerous offices I held on my med school applications, and am not sure if it is advisable to do so if I either just resign or move out of house and get expelled (chapter policy calls for an expulsion vote to be held for any members who move out of house, and as I am not the most popular member due to my loud and confident personality I don't stand a chance of getting voted to remain a member if i move out hahaha). So my dilemma is, do I list all my fraternity involvement on my application since I know this will bolster my application, or is there too great of a risk that the med school would check with Nationals, find out that I resigned/got expelled, and actually end up hurting my application as a result?
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Are you serious? Why would you come on to GC and ask a bunch of Greeks whether or not you should include on your resume an organization that you felt the need to abandon during your senior year? If you don't have "time" for your commitment during senior year of college-what makes you think you will have "time" for medical school? Greek life teaches you about balance. Apparently taking an oath means very little to you. To be honest, I have a very hard time taking anyone serious or giving anyone respect that chose to just deactivate from their GLO (unless it was a VERY good reason).
Don't include it. If your resume came across my desk and I found out you had disaffiliated, it would go straight in the garbage because you would be lying and trying to get away with claiming to be a member when you aren't.