Frat/Sorority scene at NU?

dfleish
Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:42:44 +0000

Jessy: It is pretty expensive, but I don’t know specifics. Although I guess relative to tuition it’s not that bad, and there is aid available. And I didn’t mean sorority girls are mean, but that the system is harsh itself. It’s very formal, forcing every girl to go to every house and rank them, and the houses rank the girls they met based on a few conversations. The next day you get called back to the houses that matched with you, and so on, until the end when you are down to like 3 houses, or less if you didn’t get called back to some that you wanted. It’s not exactly fun if you don’t get what you want.

Waleedk87, you can do whatever you want. There are people in my frat that don’t drink and no one has a problem with it. But you should also be careful if you rush that you find a house with personalities that match yours- if the house is known for partying extensively or something, even if they didn’t care about you not drinking, it might still be awkward or something, I don’t know. But it should just be about making friends.

MGMom, it’s not really fair to generalize the frats, especially since I’m probably biased. But there are around 10 frats with houses and some smaller ones without. It really depends on the person, as to how they will feel about rush. A very relaxed, social person would enjoy rush but probably wouldn’t care about not rushing because they are great at meeting people, making friends, and keeping in touch with guys who did rush and whatnot. They just have to feel comfortable with it and not stress over it. That was a pretty crappy answer, I’m sorry!