Scriptwriter looking for help

Barbie's_Rush · #1 05-06-2011, 05:25 PM

Here are some of the types of things I thought you should be considering:

-Is your school public or private?
-Are the chapters housed in their own houses? (With fraternities they can run from grand mansions to one inspection away from being condemned, often all on the same campus. from my experience, sorority houses are almost always well maintained, even if the chapter is failing.) Are they housed in dorms on floors?
-Are the fraternity houses wet or dry? Are they able to have epic theme parties on campus? Do they have parties off campus instead? Do they do away parties?
-Do the students come to your school from all parts of the country or mostly regionally/locally? (so there is lots of spring and summer recruitment of nearby incoming freshmen or it's mostly a commuter school.)
-How traditional and old is the Greek system? Do legacy relationships play a big part? Are the tiers fluid or set in stone since God was a freshman?
-The percentage of Greeks is less important than the influence of Greeks on the campus. Many schools have relatively small Greek populations when compared to the entire population, but the Greeks run the campus and are very high profile (your own UT is a good example of this.) Some schools have much larger Greek populations but it isn't such a big deal if you aren't. And of course there are those schools where an overwhelming percentage is Greek and not being Greek is odd.

What was said about the number and sizes of fraternities versus sororities is true almost everywhere I know of. There are almost always small socially awkward fraternity chapters all the way up to large and elitist chapters. From my experience, most guys tend to understand where they fit best, but the girls sometimes have a harder time realizing it themselves. (Just read some stories on GC!)

MikeEllis · #2 05-06-2011, 11:01 PM

I did some checking on five schools in Texas so far. Check out the first one, the one I graduated from. It has 8 fraternities and 8 sororities, just like I remembered (though they're not all the same ones that I remember).

Texas A&M Commerce
enrollment: 10,647 8 fraternities 8 sororities

Tarleton State University (A&M System)
enrollment: 10,500 6 fraternities 3 sororities

University of North Texas
enrollment: 28,548 22 fraternities 16 sororities

Austin College (private college)
enrollment: 1,350 8 fraternities 6 sororities
Stephen F Austin

enrollment: 12,954 25 fraternities 12 sororities

A&M Commerce is an anomaly though. All of the others have fewer sororities than fraternities, just like you guys described. It's hard to get numbers on the membership of each organization, so I can't estimate what percentage of the student body is involved in each. I'll keep looking, though.