ghostlygpa's comments

ghostlygpa | 8 years ago | on: Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership

Not to mention your brothers will often push you into situations out of your comfort zone. OF COURSE this means you sometimes get peer pressured into making mistakes, that's part of growing up. However, my social skills went through the roof by constantly being "forced" to socialize and my own self-confidence grew immensely. Net positive for sure

ghostlygpa | 8 years ago | on: Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership

Most schools have dry rushes and recruitment teams select members who have good grades, athletic ability, and leadership qualities, just FYI.

ghostlygpa | 8 years ago | on: Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership

Oh absolutely. Having older members come back after graduation to tell everyone how true this is didn't help, we all knew practically from the get go that we needed to focus on things like internships and leadership experience rather than class.

EDIT: "didn't help" might actually be "helped immensely", ha

ghostlygpa | 8 years ago | on: Economic and Academic Consequences of Fraternity Membership

From personal experience, joining a fraternity definitely affected my grades negatively. I ended up graduating with around a 3.1 after a few rough semesters far below that. Having said that, the connections I made have been absolutely invaluable and I'd attribute all of the success I've had in my career to either my work experience as a student or the relationships I made in the frat.