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Originally Posted by AGDee
I definitely think that's true at Michigan, but the Residential College does seem to be sort of a "sorority type" community where they have smaller classes together, live in the same dorm for two years, have foreign language immersion meals together and extra curricular activities set up right in their dorm. It is sort of an artsy/creative living community that you commit to for your first two years. It is designed to be a smaller college experience within the University of Michigan massive community.
I don't think being a hipster is a hindrance to Greek Life at Michigan (I think there are LOTS of hipsters at Michigan) but I think the live in requirements and additional activities might make it hard to do both.
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Exactly...my impression is the RC program and students are not much of a gateway to Greek life, because they are their own family/community. The rep. that we spoke with said that some RC students do join sororities and fraternities, but not too many. She did say you could definitely go through recruitment if you want to, and some students do, but most entered the RC because they want that as their home. Most are not even going through recruitment nor are they interested: it's not that they're being rejected by the Greek groups. That's what I mean by mutually exclusive; there just isn't much overlap in interest or students. They're operating in two different spheres.
I do think the 2-year RC live-in requirement would be tricky, though, and I have wondered about that. My daughter definitely wants to go through recruitment if she attends a school with Greek life. The houses at Michigan are big and they all had a live-in requirement when I was there, unless you were living at home, studying abroad, or doing an internship/student teaching elsewhere. We really had to hold to that to keep our house filled. This could be a factor during recruitment for houses that need or require all new members to move in the next year. Maybe they wouldn't want to deal with that with an RC student. Or maybe they make an exception for RC students. This is a good question and definitely one to ask when it comes time to make final decisions!