Grad Students and Greek Life w/o Chapter at Grad School

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Originally Posted by Jestor

I'm in the process of waiting to hear back from graduate schools I've applied to. Two of the schools have chapters of my fraternity, the third one does not.

For the third one, how accepting are Greeks of graduate students who are Greek, but their fraternity doesn't have a chapter on their campus?

Is it still possible to be involved with Greek life or is it pretty much, no chapter, no go?

Thanks

As someone who dearly loves Greek Life and her sorority, I gotta tell you that hanging out/partying with the undergrad chapter at your university (note I'm not talking about volunteering) is considered pretty lame among grad students. And likely by undergrads too.

I don't know what you'll be doing for grad school. If it's business/law that's one thing. But M.A./M.S./Ph.D. students are going to probably view GLOs as really lame in general. If you want to make good friends in grad school don't be all "OMG frat life" all the time.

I think the situation is probably a bit different for NPHC orgs.

Join your alum club. You're a big kid now.

Also: it's beyond ridiculous to consider whether or not your undergrad chapter is there as a factor for choosing a grad school. Period. In case you were saying that.

[Jestor]

I just wanted to say thanks again for all the advice, guys and gals.

I also received notice from my #1 choice that I've been accepted!

[ComradesTrue]

First, congrats on receiving admission to one of your programs!

Second, you have been given excellent advice above.

Let me add that when I was in grad school that there was *no time* to even worry about Greek Life! Grad school was a whole different ballgame than undergrad. And the poster who said that you will soon find it lame was spot on.

There were other Greeks in my grad program... we enjoyed getting to know each other, sharing stories from our different experiences in different GLOs in different parts of the country, but I assure you.... not one person in my grad program even sniffed the Greek Life scene of the undergrads. There just was not time. But even if there were... there was no desire.

And yes, definitely choose the program that is going to be the best professional development for you... not based on if your fraternity is there.

Best of Luck!