<p>@zentiger — as someone very pro-Greek life at Penn, I recommend that you ask yourself why you really want to join a fraternity. My brothers and I found ourselves drawn to the personal growth aspect of Greek life; the pledge process really matures you.</p>
<p>You distinctly should not want to join a fraternity because of out-group bias. That’s kind of a silly reason, since fraternities are about much more than open parties. But to explain the whole ratio / brothers at the door logic from an insider’s perspective…we’re paying dues (a lot more people than you think pay fraternity dues out of pocket) which go toward that party. You can imagine that we don’t necessarily want to subsidize Saturday night out for every freshman on campus.</p>
<p>I think a great reason to join Greek life is to help eradicate the Wharton in-group bias, actually. Since I’m in M&T, most of my friends are Wharton or SEAS (or both). The fraternity certainly helped diversify my friend group, for which I am extremely thankful.</p>
<p>Feel free to drop me a message if you want to talk about fall rush, since Penn doesn’t really publicize fall rush too well.</p>