social life at syracuse?

townie01
Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:07:59 +0000

In my experience, I felt that not joining Greek life makes you feel very unwelcome in social settings. This is obviously just me though.

At SU, you can only rush a sorority or fraternity in your second semester of freshmen year or later. Basically, your first semester you are not allowed to be in Greek life. There are pros and cons in this: obviously the pros are that you focus on your school work and find your own niche without formal recruitment. However, the con is that you naturally develop stereotypes for all the houses you may have liked had you rushed first semester. I found my social life changed dramatically once I joined a sorority, and the same went for my guy friends who joined fraternities.

Don’t get me wrong, I had a great social life first semester, but it was nothing comparable to second. First semester was when I considered transferring cause I did not feel too welcome at 'Cuse.