<p>I was not part of a frat/sorority and I found plenty of stuff to do. I belonged to a Christian group and an ethnic student association. We hanged out and went out to Evanston or Chicago. There were always tons of shows and performances (theater/movie/musical) on campus. Then of course, there’s football game to go to. This thread was meant to be negative at the first place; so take it with a grain of salt. As far as student retention rate goes, it’s on par with most other top schools’.</p>
<p>Like arbiter, I found the engineers were very satisfied with their education. I was one of them by the way and we all thought our school was great with excellent research opportunities and industry connections. It also has an excellent co-op program that many schools don’t have (or even if they do, theirs are not as established and structured as ours). The Engineer First curriculum is way ahead of other engineering schools and has gotten very positive feedback from students. The only complain seems to be the workload but engineering is supposed to be intense in many places anyway.</p>