greek life and its negative effect on smu

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You are flat out wrong. You can look at the data. SMU students in Greek Life have an average GPA of 3.42 whereas non greek students have an average of 3.32. The SMU faculty and staff does not care at all about its greek life scene. Only half of the students at SMU actually care about greek life. If you were in Greek life you would know this because every time a house has an issue with the school they will be as slow and uncooperative as possible. Now if you were working with commons council for Armstrong or something, issues with the school would be fixed right away. The school give no money towards IFC or Panhel. Everything is paid for by students paying dues and fees by people in those programs.

I'll let you in on a little secret. The only people who care about rankings are people who didn't get into the first house they wanted.

Greek life is very important to SMU academics. Greek students are better students and have a better network of opportunities.

Yes, SMU is recognized as an increasingly less prestgious university in Texas. Unless you want to spend the rest of your life in Dallas (probably the plan for many SMU Greek folks), things are not going to be so easy after four years of "pay-way-get-an-A," especially for the many California girls/USC rejects, who will find little/no name recognition or respect, versus UT and probably A and M. Enjoy that little bubble you are in, as it won't last long.

You know what started the downward spiral of SMU's prestige? The Death Penalty that the football program got in the late 80's. We had a highly respected football legacy and were nationally ranked year after year, with a 52–19–1 record from 1980 to 1986 and going undefeated in 1982. We attracted the top football recruits and coaches, and students wanted to come to SMU for the football, the academics, the Greek system, and the PRESTIGE of it all. It was the Texas version of UGA or Bama. Then in 1986 the slush fund was discovered where a booster was paying players tens of thousands of dollars, and the program was all but shuttered by the NCAA. We have never recovered from that, both athletically and in the caliber of students who were applying. The top students who had a choice were no longer choosing SMU when they could get into schools that had the total package of football, Greek, and academics. Those kids apply elsewhere now.

Are you even in alts bro

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