penn greek life!

samesies
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:08:43 +0000

I’m a freshman greek at Penn and i love it ! I’m fairly unbiased though so i feel like i can answer these questions.

-How does Penn greek life compare to state schools? How about Cornell/Dartmouth/Duke? My older sister is at Duke, and my brother’s at UVA, so I was wondering how the greek life compared.
Greek life is pretty big at Penn. If you don’t want to be a part of it you definitely don’t have to be, but a lot of social people do it.

-Are the sororities super exclusive? I’m a theta legacy, but there’s always that fear of not receiving a big or staying out of the loop.

Legacy doesn’t have much to do with getting chosen, unfortunately. But I would say as long as you are a normal person whose semi good at making conversation you’ll get a bid.

-How would you rank the sororities? I’m not trying to find one based on its rank, but I was wondering which ones were top tier, second tier, etc. and does which sorority you’re in affect which frats you mix with?

Generally, around campus it’s viewed as

1st: TriDelt, AXO, Theta
2nd: APhi, ChiO, SDT
3rd: SK
4th: Zeta

But there are AWESOME girls in every sorority so it doesn’t really mean a whole lot, it’s honestly where you fit the best.
-If you don’t go greek, are there still parties? Can you still go to frat parties?

Yes! There are definitely more options if you go greek though, but you can still go to frat parties, especially if you are a girl.