I am female, and while 30% of girls on my college campus were in sororities, at the time I had zero interest in joining, and it had little to no impact on anything for me. Some friends were in them some were not, no big deal. I can see someone who is desperate to join one being disappointed in not getting selected, but when we toured UA, we met quite a few honors and engineering students who were not involved in Greek life. My kid is interested in Blount Scholars,. As long as you find like minded people on campus, who cares if it is Greek or not?