<p>I’m rico06 dad so don’t flame him. My D goes to Pton, she is a soph. In the beginning what mattered most to her was the group of friends she made. A few of them, but not all, joined a sorority. The group remained intact. All of them expressed an interest in Ivy and Cottage, because its what most people know about. Now they have all bickered. Even though some say you pick an eating club with a group of friends, in my daughters group they picked eating clubs based on where they felt comfortable. My D picked Cottage because it had “the best food” and was the “most southern”. Bickering was “fun and kind of silly”. Some of her friends picked other eating clubs, but they really didn’t seem to be too focused on that. The biggest source of stress seemed to be wether to bicker at your significant others eating club, as it could get awkward if you broke up.
I myself was curious about the myths of the clubs so I had my daughter show me around. It is a very pretty “frat row”, with its accent on beer and dancing, but a far cry from the world of eating clubs described by F Scott Fitzgerald in “This side of Paradise”.</p>