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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The houses at Bowdoin are social houses and there is a mutual selection process somewhat similar to rush. [/quote]

So really they are frats (but not allowed to call them that).[/quote]

Yep.[/quote]

This is emphatically untrue.  First-year students are assigned to a college house based on their first-year floor.  Everybody is affiliated with a house (and only one house) automatically, with no selection or participation involved.

As for who lives in the houses, they are chosen by the professional residential life staff of the college.  The only "mutual selection" process is that groups of friends try to get residential life to admit them all to the same house. But we're talking about groups of 4, not groups of 40.  So the houses still end up drawing from a decent cross-section of campus.  (The super-quiet students and those who are "too cool" for that sort of thing excepted.)

Anyone who goes to Bowdoin expecting frats is going to be sorely disappointed.  The college house system aims to replicate some of the small-community feeling of frats, but at the end of the day, it's college housing controlled by residential life, patrolled by security, etc.[/quote]

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