<p>One of the hesitations I have on going here is the heavy frat presence, which I heard is about 80% of the school. I am a big partier, but do not want to join a frat, thinking it would be better to meet a wide variety of people at school, rather than just limit myself to a homogeneous type of person, similar to myself. However, I heard that if you aren’t a member of a frat, you are limited in the amount of parties, social events, ability to meet people, etc.</p>
<p>I don’t know about that 80% estimate. According to the General Fraternity and Sorrority Information booklet (<a href=“The Arizona Student Unions”>The Arizona Student Unions) “Over 3,000 students are members of the 50 fraternities and sorrorities at the UA.” With an undergrad population of more than 28,000 students, that’s closer to 11%, not 80%.</p>
<p>Another way to think about it is that there are 5800 students living in dorms and a significant number of students living in houses around campus vs. at most 3,000 students living in fraternities and sorrorities on or around campus. In other words, at most about 1/3 of the students living on or around campus are Greek.</p>
<p>On the other hand, if you are a big partier, you will find most of the parties at the frat houses.</p>
<p>Thanks, I probably heard wrong. I think someone said that 80% of the parties are greek oriented (not that 80% of the students are greek). Will someone who is not in a frat feel left out or have less choices when it comes to parties? I don’t want anyone to think I am just going to school to party, but partying is a fact of life in a college student’s spare time. Also, can anyone tell me the differnce between all of the frats on campus.</p>
<p>one of the things that i hate about u of a is the greek system
(i am in a fraternity and enjoy it, but i dislike the system in general)
you are definitely limited if you are not in a fraternity.</p>