<p>Hi, I am a high school junior, and have started looking at colleges. I’ve played the clarinet since 6th grade and (Not to be cocky, just honest) I’m really good at it, and I could use this to get into some really great colleges (Like UNC Chapel Hill and UVA). I’ve also always wanted to join a sorority, but with as much time as band takes up, I was just wondering if it is possible to do both? Thanks!</p>
<p>Uhh… You can take band in college? What exactly do you mean? Are you majoring in music? Or doing some sort of extracurricular activity involving band? Because usually, “band classes” end in hs</p>
<p>Possibly a double major, but probably just being involved with it as an extracutticular</p>
<p>extracurricular*</p>
<p>@lululemonxx You do know almost every college has a band and most have several orchestras for people who don’t want to be in the main/official band.</p>
<p>In answer to OP, yes…You can easily do both in most cases. I was in a band with about 350 people and I’d guess there were 10-12 girls who were greek. That was a little low when equated to the school overall percentage wise, but there could be a multitude of reasons for that…(Music majors tended not to go greek at my school because of their gigantic practice schedules)</p>
<p>Thank you!</p>
<p>@shellnutt98 I disagree with @stanatedj . For if you ever were in greek life (my sister was), you should know that it is highly time consuming and chances are it WILL conflict with your schedule. it doesn’t matter how well you can manage your time, they’re way too many events required for most sororities to be involved with something like band. Sure, most sorority girls have jobs or are involved with other extracurricular activities, but if you truly looked at their ‘schedule’ it mainly revolves around greek life where their jobs are with the university (jobs that work with your schedule), student government that meets rather on your ‘own time’ basis, clubs that meets once a week, etc.</p>
<p>You can do both, but frankly it depends on the sorority and even more so on the individuals in your chapter. My chapter president was pretty intolerant even of academics interfering, and I eventually resigned from my sorority. The usual commitment was about 5 hours per week, but every few weeks it was 20 hours per week with the time determined by the sisters in charge. And we were a small sorority (20 per pledge class) at a school with strong academics. We didn’t really have any big sororities but the big fraternities had at least 10 hours per week of commitments with 40 hours per week on occasion. The only chance with a larger sorority would be if they actually work around the band schedule (and there are Greek organizations that focus on sports or band or particular majors so that they can work around their schedules).</p>
<p>The short answer would be to narrow down your list of colleges, or even wait until you get acceptances and contact the bands about whether they have Greek members. No Greek members = no conflicts accepted.</p>
<p>There is this though: <a href=“http://www.tbsigma.org/chapter_listing.html”>http://www.tbsigma.org/chapter_listing.html</a></p>
<p>Or perhaps the question is do you mean marching band at a big sports school with lots of practices, games and travel, or a band/wind ensemble that meets as a music group perhaps a couple of times a week?</p>
<p>Isn’t part of “rushing” finding out if the sorority is a good fit for you? You could ask these questions to them.</p>
<p>@lululemonxx band class does not usually end in high school. Where did you ever get that from??? Almost every college has a band and at most band is a class where you get academic credit. I have never heard of a college not allowing non-majors to play in the band or take the class. </p>
<p>It depends entirely on the school and how time intensive the band is. At my college, it would be no problem, same with many others (mine rehearses 2 hours a week plus a 1 hour sectional, another school I applied to had 2 2 hour rehearsals a week). Some colleges have 3 hour rehearsals 3 days a week, which I don’t think would bode well with a sorority.</p>
<p>As for you being “really good” (sorry haven’t heard you play, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt), it wont get you into colleges. Especially clarinets- there are just way too many good ones. You need to play extremely well and/or play an instrument that the college needs in order to use your music to get into colleges. I can tell you, UVA has an abundance of clarinets, same with UNC Chapel Hill. </p>