Greek Life?

mirl98
Wed, 01 Jul 2015 16:00:21 +0000

Hi, I am from Latin America and will study in the US next year. I am in the process of researching universities and creating the list of univs I will apply to. One thing that I just don’t understand about many US universities is Greek life and its importance and influence on other students (especially southern Universities). What I have researched and learned about Greek life is good, their goals are mostly great for the community and students and they do offer a better social life, academic help and friends to their members. What I do not understand is how come they “rule” the social aspect and parties of many universities (as many students say in their reviews). I mean, Greek students are much less than 50% of the student body in most of US universities, so how come they are the ones who control the social life of the institution, they are less than non-greeks! It pisses me off when I read comments like “you don’t have fun if you are Non-greek” “the only way to party is going greek” “Frats and sororities are the ones who do all of the partying” etc etc… what the heck? Why students feel so dominated by greeks and let them control all (or most) of the social life at an university? If non-greeks are majority, why they don’t throw more house parties or events than greeks do? 70% of the student body is A LOT to plan and throw amazing parties! Do americans know how to have fun independently, or they need some organization like fraternities to throw parties? I don’t get how greeks have so much power over the entire student body… I know many of them are rich and have great houses, but student dorms and 70% of the student body is enough space and money to throw great parties… I know this varies between universities and Greek life is not the same in all of them, but this is my impression from what I have read in many websites, especially southern US universities…