What are my chances? Unique situation at USC

[holachiquilla]

Okay so basically I have always wanted to join a fraternity despite not being American because of the aspect of brotherhood, emphasis on community work, personal success and social immersion. However, there are two reasons which make me think getting a bid will be difficult.

Please let me know your honest opinions, outlined below are the problems I foresee:

Basically, I am a student in Europe which will be exchanging on a semester abroad program to the University of South Carolina fall semester of 2016. I emailed various of the fraternities at the university and they all said it is still possible to join as an exchange student staying for one semester. I will be 20 years old when I am there. Does this make it significantly harder to join? Note, I do not mind if it's a harder challenge to get a bid just as long as it's somewhat doable.

Secondly, I have a tattoo on each forearm (they can be covered even if I roll up my sleeves), one on my ankle and my hip. I come from a well-off background, have been in private schools my whole life, I dress what you Americans would call preppy, I love sports, have good grades and I am extremely sociable and outgoing. The reason for my tattoos stems from the fact that I have lived in 6 countries, this has led to me having a huge amount of different experiences and ending up in many strange situations. Furthermore, I have done modeling and in the fashion environment tattoos were largely popular (I've also trained combat sports and it was also very accepted in that environment). I don't like the idea of covering these tattoos by wearing button-downs the whole time because I want to be able to be myself, but I have heard fraternities hate tattoos, is this true? Again, as long as it doesn't make it impossible to join I don't mind, I just want to have realistic approximations on my chances.