University Fellows and Fraternity

mom2collegekids
Thu, 14 Jan 2016 18:53:17 +0000

^^^

I agree with the above. The reason why many STEM and premed students don’t join the “more demanding” fraternities. Pledging demands can be particulary harsh timewise.

This may not be a PC thing to say, but many in those demanding fraternities are in less-demanding majors.

There is an eng’g fraternity and at least another one (I’ll get the name) that is more academically minded and the demands should not impact school.

I’m reminded of a friend’s two premed sons who went to Bama and wanted to pledge. When the older son went, his parents made him wait until soph year to pledge. When the younger one went they let him pledge as a frosh. The one who pledged as a soph had better grades than the younger one. The older one did get into an MD med school. The younger one did not.

edit… Sigma Phi Epsilon is one of the less-demanding, more academically-minded fraternities, as well as the co-ed engineering fraternity.