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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Joining a fraternity is the solution to the social challenges of attending an OOS public. The forced togetherness of pledgeship will help him forge bonds quickly and potentially assimilate into pre-existing friend groups (given that high school friends often rush the same house). Within 8-10 weeks, he'll go from being the awkward new guy that no one knows to being a god on campus who gets into the best parties and has the best girls wanting to date him. Statistically, he'll also have a higher GPA and better networking opportunities than if he remains a GDI.[/quote]

Ugh, this advice was the absolute wrong thing to convince me that OOS flagships are a good idea.  My DC is not the greek type.

Thanks so much for your response, though!  Very helpful.[/quote]

Slow down on that thought. I have heard from many people that the frats at GA Tech can be very different than what you or your DS is thinking. They have some typical frat-boy type frats, but I've also heard there are a lot of frats for the more academic and not what you would typically think of frat life. IF he does get into GT, do some further research and don't rule it out.  He might be suprised.
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This is true, my friends son is there and he said some are focused on certain types of engineering, etc. Some may be typical but others definitely are not. [/quote]

My friend also told me that there was a frat where lots of people play dungeons and dragons.  This is what I mean - different interests for different kids and not all "Animal house" [/quote]

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