Fraternities at cornell - pros / cons

monydad
Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:02:55 +0000

If you fit well with a group of people that constitutes a given fraternity/ sorority it is a good way to make cornell functionally smaller and gives you a built-in social scene without having to make one for yourself.

But not everyone fits the mold, and if you don’t, you don’t. I didn’t, for example, and neither did D2 who is there now. yet we both had a good time there.

The rush process can be unfortunate, d2s friend was excluded from all sororities, there are only 11. and that is not uncommon.

You have to want to do all the fraternity/sorority stuff, We had a guy living with us senior year who bolted out of one,because he just didnt want to do it anymore, as it turned out. He had gotten a committed girlfriend, I think that was the turning point for him.

They have better housing than the dorms, and they eat together.