greek life

Greek life is strong here. Perhaps you are talking to people who don't care for it. There are tons of orgs to join. If you want a Greek experience -- it's very popular. If you want something else that's good too.

A&M consists of two types of people:
-"redasses" which are super-geed over-the-top school spirit types who hate greek life and basically anything that isn't the corps or an A&M tradition
-normal students who came here for a college experience and academics. In this portion of the student body greek life is very strong and popular because it's basically the only way to have a real college social experience at A&M (and also the best way to get away from all the redasses)
A&M's greek life is actually really strong. The chapters are large, the parties are fun, they're heavily involved, and at least all the upper tiers have really good quality members. Id say the only public school in Texas with a better greek life is UT (Tech is probably about even with A&M) if you're in business, probably 80% of the student body is greek, but otherwise greek life seems small (somewhere around 15% I think) but thats because A&M has a massive student population. 15% of 60,000 students is still a bigger greek life than most schools. Most people love greek life here, but there is a stigma against it for hardcore Ags because it's somehow not an A&M tradition despite being like 50 years old here

I'm a proud member of Greek Life at A&M but to tell you the truth, Greek life is NOT that huge here. Like the poster above me alluded to, about 15-25% of the student body is redass and country and hates anything not country. Most of the campus, like 60% is here for an education and doesn't give af about hardcore aggie traditions, Greek Life, or whatever is "cool." Then you have the 15% who are in Greek Life and a few other wannabes in men's and women's organizations.

I have met many many wealthy, attractive, fun people who didn't go Greek and never wanted to. It's definitely not a prerequisite to having a fun social life at A&M like it might be at other SEC schools. There's just so many people here and so many parties and social groups that it's impossible for Greeks to "rule the school." If you decide to go Greek, the parties are awesome and it's definitely getting bigger, but it's by no means the only way to have a good social life.

schools with better greek life than a&m in texas
UT,smu,tcu,tech,tstate,UofH,baylor

Being Greek is like living in a bubble. It's awesome if you're in it because there's a lot of girls in sororities and the parties are fun. However with that being said, like the above posters mentioned, redass Aggies hate us but most students, like 60%-70% couldn't care less. I myself have tons of non-Greek friends who are pretty chill (I'm in the Business school too btw), but honestly, probably only Greeks think Greek Life is awesome. Most people don't care.

Greek life isn't strong here

It doesn't even place for top Greek universities in Texas.

Tech places above UT. They have houses but they can't live in them, which sucks. But they still have hotter students and way better parties

Majority of students at A&M could not care less about greek life.....and greek life at A&M involves a very small percentage of the overall student population. With that said, the small percentage that is involved in it seem to enjoy it....for the most part.

Why are there so many butthurt GDIs on here? A&M has a great greek life. It's nowhere near the best in Texas but it's better than most the public schools

Only like 10-20% are greek & it's not like 80-90% of student lock themselves in their rooms all day. You don't need to go greek to have a social life here. That being said, that 10-20% is from a student body of nearly 60,000 so it's pretty big. And if college social life=partying to you, this is A&M. There's only 2 things to do: NG & frat parties. Girls don't need to be in greek life cause they're welcome everywhere but guys kind of need to be to have that experience. Also, girls still stick around greek circles and look for guys in frats because it's where all the normal guys end up. 90% of the guys who aren't greek at this school are incredibly weird