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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in a Frat at UVA and wife was at a Sorority. We will NEVER tell our DS to join a Fraternity.

We know that 80% of Frat kids and 70% of Sorority girls are losers in life. Either a bunch of followers with no spine, or so introverted that you need to pay for friends, or so worry about status that this becomes 50% of your life. Complete joke.

[b]It is 2025. There is no need for Greek system to exist.[/quote][/b]

Or, even easier, just don't participate ! UVA isn't like W&M where 76% of the student body participates. My UVA kid spent four happy years there and never once stepped into a Greek house. It's only 26% participation there.
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Whoa - 76% go Greek at W&M??
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Yes. It's the only institution that I'm aware of that posts the costs of participation in the Greek system on its admissions costs-of-attendance page. We toured but this was such a turn-off for DS that he never applied. Went to UVA where he never participated in the Greek system[/quote]

Is it as competitive as UVA though? Coming from a family without a lot of money and connections, I don't really want my kid attending a school where either the fraternities are too exclusive or where he'd be left out with 75% in the greek system. The school I attended had what I would call extra fraternities where pretty much anyone could join if they wanted to. So some of them were competitive and others weren't. It was the best of both worlds. You could not join a fraternity if you didn't want to and fit in, but if you wanted to, there wasn't really a fear that no one would give you a bid.[/quote]

At UVA about half of the frats are easy to get into, so yes there are places that will take most kids as long as they are not too awkward or bad with girls.[/quote]

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