Social Scene at UIUC?

Tmac18
Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:36:50 +0000

I’m not a current student, but I do hope to go to U of I. I’ve visited 3 times now with my brother who is a sophomore there and I think I can start to speak about the social life a little bit, but hopefully there’s a student on this board who can help even more.

There is definitely a lot of partying. There is a large base of frats and sororities which have their own parties going on all of the time. Besides that, there are still a good deal of parties around campus to be found. From what I’ve heard, the Greek scene is one of the biggest in the country, so that means that compared to most schools, UIUC probably has more partying.

From what I saw, the school is pretty diverse. Actually, the one thing I noticed was the high concentration of people of Asian descent on campus (compared to my quiet little suburb which doesn’t have much diversity. According to CollegeBoard, its stats are as follows:

<1% American Indian/Alaskan Native
14% Asian/Pacific Islander
7% Black/Non-Hispanic
7% Hispanic
62% White/Non-Hispanic
3% Race/ethnicity unreported

I hope I answered your question at least somewhat. There is a lot of partying going on at U of I, and I’d say that it is fairly diverse.