Did Where You Went To School Play A Part Of Going Greek?

[Buttonz]

If your at a large Greek school, was that one of the reasons why you went greek? Do you feel that if you were at a smaller Greek school you wouldn't have rushed?

If your at a small Greek school, did that play a part? Do you think you would have rushed at a larger Greek school?

(I'll post my reply seprate.)

[33girl]

definitely.

I don't know that I would have rushed at a school where being Greek was a "must."

[tunatartare]

Same here. I don't know if I would have rushed, or if I had, if I would have had a chance.

[DeltAlum]

I went to a reasonable size Greek School, I guess -- 16 National Fraternities, 12 National Sororities and three (or maybe four) BLGO's in a University of around 20,000 students.

I had no intention of rushing.

One of the guys who was a student manager at the university radio station invited me and a friend to a rush function and I got a bid the next day.

The rest, as they say...

[purplewindex]

I feel like I would've been intimidated had I chosen to go to a school where the Greek community was flourishing. Unfortunately, the president of the school I attend despises greek life and is trying her best to get rid of it (fat chance). Enrollment is getting smaller and smaller each year for fraternities and sororities, although last year was a really great year for recruitment. Hopefully a sign of what's to come in the future.

[TSteven]

I grew up in a college town where Greek Life was embraced by both the university and the community. Most of my immediate and extended family, community leaders, and high school friends and peers (those who graduated before me) were (are!) Greek. As such, it was part of the college experience that *I* knew. Thus any "large" versus "small" scenario did not matter.

[jon1856]

I went to UPS ( That would be a whole new thread-what and where is UPS and who are some of the better known alumni's)
with about 2,800 students. At the time the GLO were 6 and 6.
And rush was held the week before orentation!

I went with an open mind but also without anyone from home with me as UPS not around the block from home.

For me this worked out well.

I did spend a summer at a near by chapter which is part of a 35,000 student population.

Rush alone would have been mind blowing. And full of stress.
Jon

[KDMafia]

I can almost guarantee if I went to a large school I wouldn't have gone greek. I was very anti sorority my freshman year and the only thing that changed my mine was that all but oneof my closest friends joined the same sorority. It was hard to not see the benefits of a sorority when you're sitting in your dorm room alone and all your friends are in the same place.

I think at a bigger school I wouldn't have run the risk of having all my friends in one sorority and therefore I might have felt less bored/lonely. Also since I didnt' rush til my sophmore year that could have prevented me.

[Buttonz]

I don't think I would have gone greek at a school with a large greek system, only becuase I would ahve been afraid of what rush seems like, and very intimdated. I'm a shy person, so a large rush part and a pledge class of 30+ girls isn't something I think I'd be able to handle. One of the reasons why I loved my schools greek system that it was small enough that everyone knew everyone, yet there was a lot of diversity (at least for a commter school). Also, there is no way I'd be able to afford it.

The funny thing is, my top chocie school, the school I almost wound up going to, the school I went to, and the school I transfered to, all have one thing in common: a chapter of SDT.

[Rudey]

The better questions is, if you had to go back to school now, would you go Greek?

-Rudey

[Buttonz]

Originally Posted by Rudey

The better questions is, if you had to go back to school now, would you go Greek?

-Rudey

If I was first starting school now, I'd go Greek...but I'd go through formal rush, unling COBing which is what I did.

[KSigkid]

It didn't play any part for me. I probably would have gone Greek at most other schools, and the fact that my school had a tiny Greek system didn't play into the thought process at all.

If I had to do it over again, I'd do it the exact same way (rushing Kappa Sig second semester of freshman year).

[carnation]

Because my older cousins were in sororities and because I spent a lot of my childhood at my grandparents' house--which was set among the sorority houses at the University of Arkansas--I could not have imagined college without Greek life.

[AGDee]

I ended up going Greek because I had good friends who were Greek and they introduced me to the idea. I don't know if I would have thought of it otherwise, so it's tough to say!

[Scandia]

I would have rushed at any other school because the concept appealed to me.