question about southern schools

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

No matter what anyone says, Greek life is secondary. You can make your Greek experience work no matter where you end up. He needs to worry about getting into college before worrying about what Greek life is going to offer.

Who's to say that he's not worrying about getting into those colleges? Who's to say that he's hasn't already looked at his college options very realistically and knows where he stands a reasonable shot at getting in?

This is GreekChat and not CollegeConfidential...the OP is asking a reasonable question about Greek Life at colleges in which he's interested in. What, exactly, is wrong with that?

I don't think anyone would say that Greek Life isn't secondary to academics, but academics is only PART of the larger experience. I picked my undergrad in primarily because of the phenomenal academics, but also for a number of reasons: my parents were willing to pay, it wasn't hard for me to fly in or out of, I could play Division I sports as a walk-on, and the Greek system seemed more appealing to me than it did at other schools. Once I narrowed down my list of schools to places I knew I could get into, I focused on the extra-curricular things and I'm glad I did. Going to the college I did prepared me for the life I wanted to live--and the academics were only a small part of that.