Greek life frat or Proffesional
Im an upcoming freshman in college and I heard that fraternities help boost ur chances getting into a BB. If true, would you recommend me doing a professional frat or a greek life frat? and why?
Greek life. Go have fun and enjoy your time in college. Study hard, get good grades, and network - if you do those things you'll be fine.
Agree with all the commenters here. One caveat though is to make sure you keep up your grades during Freshman year while you're rushing/pledging - depending on the University & Fraternity this might be a very difficult task but just power through it. You recruit around Sophomore year so if you bomb Freshman year, it'll be tougher to recruit with a lower GPA.
Ehh pledging and the lack of sleep + juggling school will be good practice for analyst years. If you can't hack it as a pledge when none of it really matters you likely won't be able to handle the stress of IB.
what fraternity do you recommend me to join if im looking to have fun but also have good connections for a BB?
Totally depends on the school, see who you get along with and has a good rep. You don’t want to pledge a frat you hate just because you think you’ll have good connections.
First off, join a fraternity that you vibe with. Both for your enjoyment and theirs. If you join a fraternity purely for the connections, people notice and either won’t give you a bid or once you’re in the fraternity you won’t make genuine connections with them - completely missing the point. Also just general head up that chapters vary wildly between universities, so your misguided question doesn’t even have an answer. Meet lots of brothers from a couple of fraternities and decide for yourself where you can see yourself belonging.
If you’re asking this on here you’d probably fit in better with a professional fraternity.
Bump this
Was in both. Greek Life has far and away been better for referrals.
My best "cold" outreach was to a MD who was in a different division (IB) while I was looking for AM. He was however, in my fraternity fifteen years before and went to bat hard and connected me with a ton of people who I had no connection to (school, frat etc.).
Within frats themselves, people have plenty of connections/wealth/power to get you jobs. One of my best friends in my fraternity got four people interviews (3 of the 4 converted to offers) as one of his parents was extremely high up at that firm.
Professional frats do give you networking opportunities but as I can attest personally and with what I see pretty much everyone doing, people will always defer to folks from their respective social frat/sororities first.
what fraternity do you recommend me to join if im looking to have fun but also have good connections for a BB?
respectfully mate - if you are asking that question, odds are that you will not get into any fraternity that has the connections. You will get sniffed out very quickly at rush.
It’s hit or miss. Depending on the school and the history/alumni base of the chapter you could have a better chance of some working in IB. That said, I don’t recommend going through rush and pledging if you’re solely in it to get referrals down the line
Greek life. It’s more fun, and you develop serious personal relationships that can last a lifetime. For that very reason, your fraternity brothers are far more likely to help you professionally than a fellow member of a professional fraternity. Plus, among those from both orgs that help you in a professional capacity, fraternity brothers are far more likely to heavily vouch for you. Lastly, if you decide to switch industries entirely, you’ll have fraternity brothers that run that gamut of careers, while professional fraternities are usually somewhat siloed. From where I stand, Greek life fills the use case of professional fraternities better than the professional fraternities do.
Edit: +1 to what another commenter said about how you shouldn’t join Greek life with the primary intention of getting referrals.
what fraternity do you recommend me to join if im looking to have fun but also have good connections for a BB?
Usually school specific you can find chapter GPAs on the university website and usually those are a good indicator of how the chapter handles education. Also talking to bros will really give you all the info you need
Greek life for sure. It seems like the best way to get a job is through connections now. Last summer I got an internship because a guy who was in my frat (probably 30 years older than me) went to the recruiter with my resume. That’s just my personal example. I’ve met a lot of other guys at the bank who were in frats, easy connection. Also, you’re only an undergrad once…enjoy it
what fraternity do you recommend me to join if im looking to have fun but also have good connections for a BB?
I see you are asking everyone this…do this at uni and you wont get a bid
Greek. Don’t be weird.
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