Greek Majors

Texas Beta · #1 11-30-2006, 08:12 AM

So its 6 AM, I'm a little drunk, I'm writing a 10 page paper due on Friday. Fucking history classes.

Ok, so I'm a history major, 90% of my chapter is petroleum engineering, with their pops also in the industry. I'm going to law school in London, and then (hopefully) UT law school. I hope to be working for these companies when I'm finished, Texas Tea

Focus: What are the basic major makeup of Greek chapters. A lot here are engineering (hard majors, and a lot of money in the future)

jubilance1922 · #2 11-30-2006, 08:59 AM

Depends on the school.

If its a school where engineering dominates, like Ga Tech, then odds are that most members will be engineering students.

If its a school that has more majors, then its probably more mixed.

KSigkid · #3 11-30-2006, 09:57 AM

Completely depends on the school. My chapter was pretty evenly split between School of Management and College of Arts and Sciences (mostly science and econ majors, with a couple of English and history majors thrown in). There were a few journalism/film/PR majors, a few engineering people, and scattered other majors as well. I graduated with a double major in print journalism and history, and I think I was the only one in my chapter in either program.

My school (Boston University) didn't really have a specialty though, so that factored in with the diversity of majors in my chapter.

I will say a decent percentage of my chapter went on to grad school; several got their masters, with a couple of people in Med School and a few going to law school.

Lady Pi Phi · #4 11-30-2006, 01:22 PM

When I was still active, my chapter was pretty evenly mixed. We had about 1/3 BComm. students, 1/3 BSc students, and about 1/3 BA students. And most everyone had a different major.

Drolefille · #5 11-30-2006, 01:31 PM

We had quite a few nurses, but I think this was more a function of SLU as a pre-med school where a bunch of people leave pre-med and go to bio/chem/nursing etc. Psychology was a big one as well. But we were overall well rounded.

macallan25 · #6 11-30-2006, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Texas Beta

So its 6 AM, I'm a little drunk, I'm writing a 10 page paper due on Friday. Fucking history classes.

Ok, so I'm a history major, 90% of my chapter is petroleum engineering, with their pops also in the industry. I'm going to law school in London, and then (hopefully) UT law school. I hope to be working for these companies when I'm finished, Texas Tea

Focus: What are the basic major makeup of Greek chapters. A lot here are engineering (hard majors, and a lot of money in the future)

Yeah, its Texas......we are going to all have a ton of Petroleum Engineers, Energy Management, and Business majors (lots of finance). I'm a history major as well....

shinerbock · #7 11-30-2006, 02:49 PM

My chapter (and others at AU) seemed to be about 1/4 Poli Sci/Pre Law, 1/4 Business, 1/4 Engineering and then some building science/architecture and ag economy majors.

33girl · #8 11-30-2006, 03:05 PM

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Originally Posted by macallan25

Energy Management

tangent

Does that entail more science classes, more management/business classes, or an even mix of both? It sounds very interesting.

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We had lots of people in our chapter that started as accounting majors, but none of them ever finished. As much as we laughed and said it was an ASA thing, I think the whole school was that way - the students who were getting into it for the $$$ got "weeded out" along the way.

macallan25 · #9 11-30-2006, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

tangent

Does that entail more science classes, more management/business classes, or an even mix of both? It sounds very interesting.

/tangent

We had lots of people in our chapter that started as accounting majors, but none of them ever finished. As much as we laughed and said it was an ASA thing, I think the whole school was that way - the students who were getting into it for the $$$ got "weeded out" along the way.

Yeah, it is a pretty cool major. Most of the curriculum draws from a mix of petroleum engineering, petroleum geology, geosciences, business, and law.

Coramoor · #10 11-30-2006, 07:58 PM

The Beta chapter on my campus was mostly business or exercise phys. I was one of about 10 or so engineers. We had a pretty decent mixture with a lot of majors represented, but those were the majority.

Scandia · #11 11-30-2006, 08:19 PM

Well, my A Phi O chapter had everything. But I do not know if you would count a co-ed service fraternity.

I will try to remember the majors of girls in sororities back from when I was at UF:

AXO- human resources, political science, pre-med, journalism
ADPi- I knew one girl who changed from nutrition/pre-med to accounting, and she was a tap dancer.
AEPhi- didn't know anyone
AOPi- Spanish, nursing, math
AXiD- economics/pre-law
Chi Omega- classics, business
Delta Gamma- chemical engineering, business
Tri-delt- psychology, pre-law
DPhiE- education
Theta- I knew nobody from it
Kappa Delta- well, my friend's great aunt was in it and she was an elementary education major, but that was way before I was born.
KKG- digital media, pre-law, human resources
Phi Mu- zoology, physical therapy
Pi Beta Phi- education (girl who lived in my house before I did)
Sigma Kappa- political science, psychology, criminology, business
Zeta- nursing x2

And Delta Zeta is at UF now, but was not back when I was a student.

I know someone from USF who was in Sigma Delta Tau. She was an education major undergrad and later went to library school to become a media specialist.

PhiMuAmberkins · #12 11-30-2006, 09:33 PM

We have a lot of bio (pre-med) and business majors. I'm the only history major actually!

tld221 · #13 11-30-2006, 09:52 PM

a lot of my chapter are education majors (yea yea yea, i know, my founders were teachers, but i just think thats my particular chapter).

my graduate chapter is made up of mostly businesswomen/educators/recent grads.

bluefish81 · #14 11-30-2006, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by eli_the_chopper

my chapter is about 90 percent Mechanical engineers. the rest include a few IEs, EE/CEs and a crazy computer science major. But yeah, it depends on the school, here at General Motors Inst (now called Kettering, but no one's ever heard of that!) you get a lot of Mech Engineers.

I've heard of Kettering - it's in Flint correct? My ex-boyfriend was looking into a teaching position there I believe. He has an acquaintance that teaches there now.

As far as the mix of the chapters where I went to school it seemed like some of the fraternities were very heavy in engineering, AGR was obviously heavy in ag related majors. The sororities seemed to vary a bit. Mine seemed to be mostly comprised of education majors (predominately el ed), business majors and some liberal arts majors with the majority of those being journalism majors.

AGDee · #15 11-30-2006, 11:56 PM

I'm curious whether those majors reflect the general student population as well. If a school has 50% of their students working toward a business degree, is that the same for the students in fraternities/sororities? I think at my school, back then, we pretty much reflected the general school population. We had a lot of business and education majors, but that was also the general focus at the school. I was the only Occupational Therapy major, but that program only accepted 50 students a year, so that would be expected. I was the only one in my OT class who was Greek.

Incidentally, my first husband got his degree in Energy Management and his classes were pretty different from what you described. He had electronics, physics and business courses primarily, along with some stuff on rates and codes.