Fraternities And Sororities Should Be Allowed In College Essay

As everyone knows, universities in the United States of America are most popular for its Greek life. But is it really as beneficial as people say it is, or is it just teaching young children how to party in college? I think that fraternities and sororities are not really beneficial to a student’s future and they should be discouraged in universities. Fraternities and sororities are now widely just known for their parties, and the incidents caused in these parties. Is it still worth to encourage fraternities and sororities in universities even after listening to all these incidents? Firstly fraternities and sororities take up a lot of a student’s time in their weekly activities, leaving the students no time for doing homework or having some alone study time. During the mandated study hours there are so many distractions for a student to properly concentrate and get effective work done. For example, a student in a fraternity spends on average two hours on weekdays and about four hours on weekend’s (GreekLife) from which the mandatory study hours are …show more content…
The average cost for joining one of these organizations is anywhere from five hundred to one thousand dollars. And that is not even the start of the expenses! Once you join the Greek life you are forced to go out to expensive clubs and restaurants and dress in a certain way, all of which are really expensive habits that a college student should not have. This is a very high cost for parents and students to incur in addition to the high tuition fees that students are already paying. It has also been shown that students in fraternities and sororities have a fourteen percent higher debt rate than regular college students (Fraternity HQ). Students should not have to pay such a high fee to get friends or be a part of something bigger, I think that the universities offer a lot of opportunities on campus for students to explore before they decide to pay for an outside