Anonymous wrote:Are girls in sorority required to live together, like an apartment or large house? Or just attend required meets and events. When they say sorority house, what does it mean?

This varies by school and by chapter. In some states, there aren't any official sorority houses. Where an official house exists, there is often a live-in year (sophomore or junior). Some will require the house be full and some not and some don't have space for everyone anyway. If you aren't in the official house, you can live wherever and with whomever you want. The benefits of the house include bonding, chef, cleaning crew and it's usually cheaper than an apartment. Since it's not a frat house, there aren't parties and it doesn' get gross.

Are girls in sorority required to live together, like an apartment or large house? Or just attend required meets and events. When they say sorority house, what does it mean?

Yes, of course!

This is not at all an issue or problem.

My daughter isn't in engineering, but is in a pre-health major that is very demanding (think 3 out of 4 classes have labs and maybe extra discussions). She is still pledging, but there are plenty of other pre-med/pre-pa/pre-pt girls in greek life at her intense school. Social events are not mandatory. You have to obtain a certain number of points to be able to attend things like the formal, but those can be obtained with other events. One thing that is nice is that there are older sisters who have been down the same path, so they are a good resource.

There is also a sorority that was founded originally just for engineers, I think, and has expanded to all stem. That's another option.

Oh, please, sororities are incredibly proud of the accomplishments of their members. We had student athletes, premed students, engineers. Sororities love to brag about their high GPA and their accomplished members. There may be some mandatory social events, but it can be easily managed in a conversation with the person running the pledge program. For upperclassman, it only becomes more flexible.

Well there's always the Society of Women Engineers!

They support some good programs.

I was just talking to the mom of an engineering student, and she was noting the advantage of having a friend group that is also engineering students. If your friends are not engineering, you end up feeling left out because of all the social events you can't really do because of the work load. Whereas the engineering students will hang out and study together and order a pizza or whatever so you're not left out -- you're all in it together.
I would think that it would be important to find a sorority with a critical mass of members studying engineering or something similar, and not just pick the sorority your mom was in or similar.

I'm of two minds. Back when I studied engineering, I could not have managed with the kind of social commitment that Greek life entailed. However, friends of DC with rigorous majors chose their sororities hoping to network with others who shared their time constraints, and were willing to provide an "insta-friend" group with minimum investment of effort. Maybe times have changed, or it's the difference between sororities at different schools?

Lots of engineers in my daughter’s sorority at an Ivy.

My daughter has engineering majors in her sorority at UVA.

My daughter is an engineering major. Her sorority has several engineering majors, pre-med students, etc. in it.

My daughter is an engineering major and there are definitely other women in her sorority that are as well.

Anonymous wrote:Why wouldn’t they?

No need to attend every single mixer or event.

Actually sororities have strict rules about this. I may vary from sorority to sorority, but when I was in, participation in all events was expected. I think there was maybe 1 event per month you could miss…or season, or something like that. There was a designated number though.

Why wouldn’t they?

No need to attend every single mixer or event.

Are these two mutually compatible?