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Originally posted by AEPhiSierra
I feel E P Conard completely over-generalized when it comes to the Greek experience at commuter schools. Hopefully I misinterpreted it because I found it quite obnoxious. To group commuter schools with shopping mall chapters and inverted mine shafts shows your own ignorance of commuter schools and their often excellent academics.

I go to a commuter school which has an excellent academic reputation (better than many traditional schools) and most of my fellow students attend our commuter school not because of their inability to gain admittance elsewhere but instead because they were unable to bare the financial burdens of away schools or, for their own reasons, they wanted to stay home.

As for my Greek experience at a commuter school, yes it is different from most but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. While many will see a million disadvantages for greeks at commuter schools, I have a type of bond with my sisters that I cannot imagine having if I had attended an away school. I don't just know my sisters, I know their whole families. When my sisters graduate they don't move back to homes which could be hundreds of miles away, most of them are still here in Brooklyn. On a weekly basis I see alumni from my chapter and other chapters on my campus who graduated as long as 4 or 5 years ago. Recently sisters' grandparents have passed away and another Greek's father passed away. They didn't have to go home and face this alone. They were already home and the whole chapter was there to support them. And while sharing this bond we did well in school, maintained scholarships and participated in other extracurriculars.

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