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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two kids there. Both are thriving there in different ways. It's definitely a big place that can be anything you want it to be. It's also a big place where a kid can feel isolated.  As worrying parents, we were nervous about our daughter falling into that latter category for the first few weeks. But she found her people and is having a good experience.

My son is in the marching band and is just having a blast. He was a high school band kid and, joining the Marching Hundred, he basically had a built in social group, and he goes to a ton of sporting events. (We watch for him on TV at the basketball games.) He's definitely drinking underage off-campus, but from all I can tell, he's going far less crazy than I did at his age.

My daughter didn't join the band, so was a little slower to fall into a social group. [b]I don't think IU necessarily does a great job with orientation activities. They have a lot of them, but they don't require them and don't seem to give the kids much a push to interact. The first week, I think my daughter went to several first year student events where she wasn't really sure how to break the ice (or was too nervous.)
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But, she's in the Collins dorm and has a few art classes, so she fell in with an "arty" crowd that seems to suit her.

There's definitely an active Greek community in Bloomington, but my kids aren't part of it. Near as I can tell, that's not a problem for either the people who like Greek life or the people who don't want to be part of a fraternity or sorority. Again, it's a big place.

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My DS is seriously considering it too, and this is the one thing that concerns me the most about IU or any big state school for that matter. How do kids from out of state make friends and start to feel at home? I can see it being fun if 100 of your friends from a big public high school in Indiana are there with you, but OOS kids don't have that advantage. [/quote]

My one friend’s son had this experience. Really hard to break into the social groups.

The comment about “one of the top frats” is kind of weird. Are they ranked? That seems.. gross. [/quote]

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