are grad students allowed to get involved in greek life? (rushing a fratenity) (schools, best)

[RogerWillis2222]

so I had a very complicated issue in undergrad where I could not rush a fraternity. for one I transferred to an SEC school during my 4th year where they had strict standards for fraternities and then it went downhill from there. I was in a rush to graduate and my previous school that I attended before transferring didn't have greek life.

Can grad students rush a fraternity or not?

I don't care about people preaching to me the whys and giving me life advice, I just want to know if it is possible.

[K-Luv]

To my knowledge it is up to the individual fraternity and they will most likely let you join as an "honorary member" if they do.

You might have better luck with non-Greek frats.

There are plenty of activities, groups and societies for graduate students as it is.

[Pitt Chick]

To the best of my knowledge, no.

[stellastar2345]

not at my SEC school.

[easternerDC]

I know there are some chapters that employ graduate students as academic advisors for the chapters. Perhaps that is something worth looking into as an alternative?

[Ceece]

Unless you're going to base you're choice of schools on whether you can rush I'd think you'll be better off checking with the with the school you know you'll be attending and the fraternity chapters there. Look at the non greek ones.

I don't think most places have restrictions on who can rush (did you last college really have that rule or was it something else?). What needs to happen is a frat would have to give you a bid.

[woxyroxme]

I was a TKE in college and we had a few grad students as members but they were actives as undergrads but that was a long time ago.

[Aloststudentinlife]

No I will not listen to you that say fraternities are for young kids or whatever, if your goal is to tell me to go away from that life then do not even bother posting on this thread.


That said, I have heard about guys as old as 25 who rushed and got bids to be in a fraternity because they were former military. Now I am almost done with undergrad and had to transfer schools and all that so the fraternity option was not as easily available to me (last university did not have greek life). I do plan on going to graduate school and I was wondering what the rule is about grad students rushing fraternities at a university or if they even allow it. I am more interested in hanging out with 18-21 that love to get drunk and party.

[ocnjgirl]

Originally Posted by Aloststudentinlife

No I will not listen to you that say fraternities are for young kids or whatever, if your goal is to tell me to go away from that life then do not even bother posting on this thread.


That said, I have heard about guys as old as 25 who rushed and got bids to be in a fraternity because they were former military. Now I am almost done with undergrad and had to transfer schools and all that so the fraternity option was not as easily available to me (last university did not have greek life). I do plan on going to graduate school and I was wondering what the rule is about grad students rushing fraternities at a university or if they even allow it. I am more interested in hanging out with 18-21 that love to get drunk and party.

I just saw one of your other posts....it is going to be extremely difficult for you to get accepted into any grad school with a 2.4 GPA. You probably won't have many choices...if you can only get accepted at a small school that doesn't have a big Greek presence, will you go anyway? Just curious. Did you take the GREs yet?

Why not check with frats at schools you're interested in?

Originally Posted by Aloststudentinlife

No I will not listen to you that say fraternities are for young kids or whatever, if your goal is to tell me to go away from that life then do not even bother posting on this thread.


That said, I have heard about guys as old as 25 who rushed and got bids to be in a fraternity because they were former military. Now I am almost done with undergrad and had to transfer schools and all that so the fraternity option was not as easily available to me (last university did not have greek life). I do plan on going to graduate school and I was wondering what the rule is about grad students rushing fraternities at a university or if they even allow it. I am more interested in hanging out with 18-21 that love to get drunk and party.

On second thought, be sure to provide this information in your grad school application. If there's one thing academic departments love, it's immature people with abysmal GPAs who want to waste a couple years getting drunk with underage idiots.