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<p>I’ve wasn’t in a college with Greek life so I can’t comment on that, but did no one else take issue with the fantastical stats above?</p>
<p>Even the most basic 5 minutes of research disproved the only stats I bothered looking up on that exhaustive list (Presidents and CEOs) - and I can only assume the other ones are made up, too.</p>
<p>6 Presidents I found since 1850 that were not members of fraternities before I didn’t care:
Andrew Johnson - no college
Eisenhower – West Point – no fraternities
Truman – no college
Grover Cleveland - no college
Abraham Lincoln - no college
Fillmore - no college
I didn’t bother checking the rest because I didn’t want to bother looking up if each university had fraternities. I know Harvard does and that accounts for many of them, but whether they were in them, who knows? I can’t tell by Wikipedia.</p>
<p>Also, an article in Forbes from 2003 (again, I’m too lazy to do much research) claims that a quarter (25%) of the CEOs in the largest 500 companies were involved with Greek life.</p>
<p>[Best</a> Fraternities For Future CEOs - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2003/01/31/cx_dd_0131frat.html]Best”>Best Fraternities For Future CEOs)</p>
<p>Quite a far cry from 80%. The stats seem like blatant lies, sorry to say.</p>
<p>But that’s not knocking Greek life. It may be great. It just won’t turn you into superman and make you set for life. Or affect your future finances/ success either way long-term, in all honesty. That’s mostly up to you and your life choices.</p>