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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are students in the Honors Programs all merry? My kid is interested in a honors program, but also wants to be in a Sorority and likes to be around a diverse group of people. Not students who are single minded about their classes. [/quote]

If your dd wants to be around a diverse group of people, I don’t think a sorority is the way to go. Sorry, but Greek organizations attract a fairly narrow profile. That’s totally fine, but it’s strange to say you want to join a sorority or fraternity to be around a diverse crowd.[/quote]

PP with Pitt and PSU Honors experience.  Also, my parents and my husband were Greek.

When I went to Pitt and PSU, the sororities were housed on dorm floors (not stand-alone houses).  The purpose of going Greek is definitely to find friends.  It is a very group-oriented process.  Frequent co-ed parties, often at fraternity houses, are fairly central to the experience.  I do not like loud, drunken, crowded environments.  Basically private equivalents of hanging out at a busy bar.  I am a "restaurant with small group of people and good conversation" kind of person. I enjoy meeting new people but only where we can discuss common interests at a reasonable volume.  I also had steady boyfriends one at a time during college so I was not looking widely for extra social opportunities.

At Pitt and PSU, it's my impression that the honors college women were not involved in sororities.  It's not so much a question of being nerdy as it is a question of priorities.  It's my impression, which will probably be controversial, that the most academically talented women were not interested in going Greek.  That said, sororities were more prominent at PSU and therefore probably more selective.

Back to the main point of going Greek.  Finding friends.  I can see where the Honors dorms add value there.  Too nerdy just depends on the individuals and the circumstances.  In my specific experience at PSU long ago, that didn't work out because there weren't a lot of women in the honors dorm and I had a roommate with personal problems/mental health issues.  So the community of honors women was too small to meet my social needs.  I joined PSU choirs instead.[/quote]

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