why join? (sure already asked)

[dgdramadawg]

Originally Posted by nwu43

I didn't even know that (just curious if you have a source? I'd like to show that to some of my high school friends and relatives that I'm trying to convince to go greek )

Example from UGA as of Fall 2006 (It's on the Panhel website):
All Men's Average: 3.01
All Fraternity Average: 3.10 (Fraternity men are .09 higher than other guys)

All Women's Average: 3.23
All Sorority Average: 3.29 (Sorority women are .06 higher than other girls)

All Undergraduate Average: 3.12
All Greek Average: 3.23 (Greeks are .11 higher than other undergrads)

Some other statistics from the IFC's Spring 2006 Report:
All Men's Average: 3.04
All Fraternity Average: 3.17 (Fraternity men are .13 higher than other guys)
Fraternity New Member Average: 3.00 (Yes, this is certainly lower than the 3.04 men's average... but this certainly doesn't indicate a massive number of guys with below a 2.5 as the OP suggested)

A lot of schools have similar reports available.

To the OP: If you have several friends who pledged, why not ask them why they think you should join?