I want to join a fraternity!

[dnall]

Originally Posted by Cesky

I'm thinking about going to a different university for Grad school. I was just wondering if most fraternities allow people to pledge as grad students?

IE - he's not in grad school considering transferring. He's presumably in the back end of his undergrad considering various grad schools.

I don't know if someone else did, but I never said Top U to Podunk U. I said Podunk U to Podunk U or Top U to Top U. There is very little that in way of degrees or universities that you can't find another equivalent alternative to, in this case an alternative that would offer the greek opportunity he's looking for.

Education in general though is what you make of it. The vast majority of people I know are not working in the field of their undergrad degree, or they have a grad degree in the area. Maybe only a handful of my friends I can think of, and they're engineers & GIS type folks where there it's a requirement in the door but not necessarily a huge need to get a grad degree cause it's mostly on the job development.

In terms of where someone goes to school, just like your GPA, that matters maybe to get your first job out of school. After that it's work experience. And either way it's interviewing skills. There's no way I would go into massive debt for an ivy league name a piece of paper that doesn't matter all that much. Maybe there's some industries where that's not the case, but to me, the person is more important than the paper. Networking, being able to rapidly connect with people, having real leadership skills with peers/superiors/subordinate. Selling an employer on that stuff is bigger than how prestigious your education was.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by dnall

IE - he's not in grad school considering transferring. He's presumably in the back end of his undergrad considering various grad schools.

Then what was the point of:

Originally Posted by dnall

At this point, if you're serious about this, you should transfer.

Originally Posted by dnall

If he's so serious about joining a fraternity, then he should transfer

.....

If it's key to this guy, then he should transfer.

[dnall]

I didn't notice it at first either.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by dnall

I didn't notice it at first either.

OK, maybe that's where our disconnect was.

If Greek life is part of the total package for (general) you, then by all means go after schools with GLOs. It's silly,though, to transfer when your only motivation is to try to get into XYZ Fraternity. That's not what college is for.

[dnall]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

If Greek life is part of the total package for (general) you, then by all means go after schools with GLOs. It's silly,though, to transfer when your only motivation is to try to get into XYZ Fraternity. That's not what college is for.

I mean it's not, but ultimately in your life I think a positive meaningful fraternity experience is more important than where your degree came from - you still have a degree either way, and presumably from an equally prestigious school.