<p>tobeedu, did you know about the frat scene from before then? </p>
<p>I am wondering whether the kids will get put off by this kind of experience and not join the frats.</p>
<p>Would have done a visit except for Science Bowl being rescheduled for Feb. 15. Except it snowed again so they rescheduled again.</p>
<p>Blech!</p>
<p>I graduated from a large state college and learned about frats first hand. I had heard that hosts at Connect with Tech might be from the frats and I decided ahead of time to have my son stay at the hotel. I don’t think anything surprises me anymore. And clearly nothing has changed in 30 years. And my son is such an independent thinker I think he knows the fraternities are not for him anyway…too much built-in peer pressure. Other boys could react differently to the whole fraternity thing. So much of it is personality. The frats are what they are…</p>
<p>D visited Vassar and Columbia on Sunday. Happy to be back in the sun now!</p>