<p>i agree completely with cavalier…fraternities are VERY different at different campuses, and the national organization really doesn’t matter at all as far as the personalities of the individual chapters.</p>
<p>Exactly. And most guys at good houses hate the national organizations, anyway.</p>
<p>Well, the reason guys in the chapter hate nationals is because nationals always have their rules like no hazing or if they’re dry then they have to be dry and maybe have some sort of live-in to keep things under control, etc. They also have to make sure they follow these rules so their chapter doesn’t get kicked off campus. Once a year you’ll also have some dude from nationals come to look over your chapter which sucks, because he’ll nose through all your stuff and can come into every room looking for things and sits in on chapter to make sure you guys are taking care of what you’re supposed to. It’s not like we hate the fact that our fraternity is nationally one of the most elite.</p>
<p>haha the phi delt guys at northwestern are kinda fun/sleazy, the type that make good friends but not boyfriends :)</p>
<p>I am a Junior…do people pledge that late.</p>
<p>I’m guessing you do not know many phi delts, or know that many well, which isnt surprising since our freshman class is smaller this year.</p>
<p>We were ranked #1 for getting laid in the purple book last year though, which I guess theoretically might have something to do with what you’re talking about, haha. </p>
<p>To the dude above me, I have a friend thats a junior and pledged a frat this year, but it was because he transferred. If you transferred it should be okay just make good friends with guys in the house, although you’d have to do that no matter what year you are. If you’re a regular junior then you must know enough people in your intended house to get in by now.</p>
<p>Know this thread is old, but the national organization isn’t a big deal because chapters can vary so much from campus to campus. The biggest fraternities nationwide are probably Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Tau Omega, and Sigma Phi Epsilon. The funny thing is though, all of those orgs have chapters at my school and none are among the top – so bigger is not necessarily better.</p>
<p>Is anyone familiar with Zeta Beta Tau, Alpha Epsilon Pi, Phi Kappa Sigma or Sigma Alpha Mu ? These are some at a local campus</p>
<p>Well all are historically Jewish (except for PKS as far as I know - but I could be wrong). </p>
<p>And TKE (Tau Kappa Epsilon) is the biggest joke of an organization known to any Greek. If you can’t go greek, go TKE (pronounced teke). In their quest to be the biggest they long ago sacrificed any remnant of respect they had at a national level.</p>
<p>In addition to the other orgs mentioned by rifles, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Theta, and Pi Kappa Alpha deserve to mentioned. But the point remains the same - the best chapter at your campus may not be one of those orgs.</p>
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<p>These fraternities have many strong chapters across the nation - but, as been stated a no. of times prior, ymmv at your particular school.</p>
<p>completely depends on your school. A bunch of frats listed previously on this thread as “good” frats are really not very good at the school I am in. Its pretty easy to figure out which the good frats are after a few weeks in school.</p>
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<p>AEPi is a very good frat, especially for networking. And, contrary to popular belief, it is not exclusively Jewish. There are many chapters where goyim outnumber Jews. </p>
<p>SAM is fairly solid, but seems to have less successful than AEPi, which is its main competition. From the chapters I’ve delt with, they are much less open to goyim too. Not bad guys, but not exactly open.</p>
<p>Very little experience with PKS, though I’ve yet to hear anything bad about them.</p>
<p>ZBT is scum. I don’t want to slander the national organism, but in the ones I’ve had the misfortune of dealing with, they are a huge source of binge drinking, date rape, sexual assault, drug use, and otherwise degenerate behavior.</p>
<p>I am a member of Sigma phi Epsilon KS Delta. I am aware that everyone thinks their own fraternity is the best and frankly it would be weird if they didnt. I am shocked that we arnt event mentioned on this forum. Not only are we the largest national fraternity with over 250 chapters in all fifty states but we are the first national fraternity to break a 3.0 national average gpa. Not only that but we were the first to turn away from a pledge process and create three step no hazing membership development program called the balanced man project. Not only that but we invited other Fraternities to adopt our membership development model. The change of mem dev programs came because Fraternity membership was down. not only in Sigma Phi Epsilon but in most other fraternities as well. The program focuses not only on recruting new members but alsp in retaining them once they have joined. I am also aware that their might be some of our chapters that have a bad reputation but I also know that there is definately way more good than their is bad so I am totaly suprised that Sigma Phi Epsilon is not mentioned not even once. </p>
<p>Please feel free to write about the reputations of other sigma phi Epsilon chapters in the U.S good or bad. I am interested to know what the reps of some of the other chapters are.</p>
<p>I take that back we are listed on this forum. I just hadnt noticed it on the other pages</p>
<p>Well I’m glad at least one SigEp knows how to read…</p>
<p>J/k, a couple of really good friends in my medical school class are SigEps and are a credit to your organization.</p>
<p>Here’s a list of every national fraternity in America. You can see which schools it has chapters at, then go to that school and to the individual chapter’s website.</p>
<p>[North-American</a> Interfraternity Conference - Fraternity and Sorority Websites](<a href=“http://www.nicindy.org/links/NIC_fraternity_and_sorority_websites/]North-American”>http://www.nicindy.org/links/NIC_fraternity_and_sorority_websites/)</p>
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<p>we aren’t talking about sororities…</p>
<p>I am an active member of Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE) and I saw that a few people think that TKE is a joke, is a laughingstock, or exclusive.</p>
<p>I had never heard any of those characterizations of TKE before, and am I curious as to what TKE has done that has made people of think of TKE that way. TKE is the largest social fraternity in the world by total number of active chapters so I would say that is pretty awesome.</p>
<p>At the school I go to SigEp is the largest fraternity, and in the past few years have had the highest GPA most of the time. I agree that chapters of the same fraternity can differ significantly from college to college.</p>
<p>The reason why TKE is largely ridiculed is because of exactly what you said. TKE, in their continuous effort to be the largest fraternity around. As a means to that goal, TKE long ago stopped caring where the chapters opened, so long as they opened, and as a result, you have a bunch of chapters at some pretty lame duck schools as far as being Greek goes. Further, the support struggling chapters receive from your nationals is non-existant - which I can understand - why help one chapter when you’re going to have 10 more chapters next year?</p>
<p>The point is, a bunch of chapters with 10 or 14 members at a bunch of schools where 5% of the school is Greek isn’t very impressive. It’s the quantity vs. quality argument, and quality wins every time. </p>
<p>This isn’t to say that you made a poor choice by joining TKE. Everyone has to make the best decision for themselves, and at your school, TKE may be a great chapter, but in terms of national reputations, this is the honest truth about TKE. This also isn’t to say that people who go to small colleges with small greek populations don’t deserve to be greek, or that their brotherhood/sisterhood is any less meaningful to them, just that there is a difference between what they experience and what a Greek at one of the BIG greek schools experiences.</p>
<p>i hate these threads asking which chapters are strong or whatever nationally. When you sit here and ridicule someone’s BROTHERHOOD, something that they put a lot of time, money, and passion into, you really look like a ■■■■■■■■■ and you might as well have not pledged a fraternity at all because you don’t seem to get the point.
go through rush and find the fraternity you like best, not one that everyone else likes.</p>