Academically, Joining the Greek System Is Like ‘Having All of Your Professors Be Worse Than Average’
Fraternities and sororities’ effect on grades was largest, researchers found, during pledging.
If everyone strived to embody the core values listed on fraternities’ and sororities’ websites, the world would be a lovely place, full of “true friendship,” “mutual support,” “personal integrity,” and, of course, “scholarship.” The hundreds of thousands of undergraduate students currently in Greek organizations, a new study suggests, could stand to focus a bit more on that last one.
The , from the economists William Even and Austin Smith of Miami University, in Ohio, examined
