Aggie-to-Aggie Advice

AGmomx2
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:32:22 +0000

I’ll answer a couple of these for you - I’m an aggie mom not a current aggie…

3. campus events: tailgates are amazing! I was at last weekend’s game - they include generations of Aggies & current students. Very friendly, more so than other schools (there are many articles written on TAMU football atmosphere as one of the best). Muster continues beyond just school years and is held around the world. There are over 800 clubs & organizations that are always busy with activities both for their members & the public. It is what I would call a festive campus - ring day, march ins, elephant walk, midnight yell, fish camp, parents weekend,sporting events, fundraisers, cultural events, concerts, etc. etc.

4. Greek life is 10% of the student body. That is the number for national sororities & fraternities. There are also local based ones on campus too. They are not as competitive for membership. Many of the clubs also operate very similar to what you would consider greek life ( volunteering, parties, fundraising) without the long term commitment. The female side of greek life is much bigger than the male due to the corps of cadets which is very similar to a fraternity, but with a huge set of rules. There are 12 sororities (actually 14 as two are colonizing), those each have over 200 members per house. The sororities all have houses, sorority ‘row’ is off campus gathered in a three street area. Fraternities there are over 30, are much smaller with a range of 15 - 100 members. Only a very few have houses - I think it is now 3 (one that had a house is in process of losing their charter). Recruitment for sororities is officially in the fall, but they do take some members by invitation in the spring (COB). Fraternities recruit both fall and spring & are far less formal about the procedure. More information can be found by contacting Greek Life.

5. Well based on my kids & the amount of kids we feed at tailgates… friends are easy to come by here! Seriously friendly group of students - just get involved with something you like here ( club/organization/team etc.) and you’ll have no problem.

6. Sports passes are normally sold out by the summer. However, that is due to the large interest in football games. Check with the 12th man foundation to see if they have any available for spring -they might. Also you can use other student’s sports passes for entry - present it and your student ID for entry. So, you might be able to find someone to let you use theirs for the games you’d like to go to. Guest tickets are available for purchase for most non-football games but not all - when the super popular teams come to campus it is tough (basketball& baseball had some non-guest games last season). Student guest passes are available by the game, not for the season & are sold very close to game time. Ticket pull for football is based on your class ranking, seniors go first. If you have a group then majority rules as to your class pull day ( 4 senior, 2 freshman = senior pull). You exchange your sports pass for an actual ticket with a section & seat number. You can resell (for face value) or give your sports pass to others to use - a sports pass is good for a student ticket, an upgrade sticker is purchased for non-students to use the tickets.

I’ll let others answer the other questions…