Movies are a poor representation. I have yet to see a movie that accurately captures it, and it fuels stereotypes quite poorly. Animal house is an over representation, Neighbors is an under representation. We party Monday-Saturday, drink a ton, have quite a few girls sleep over quite often, and do have an elitist mentality, i do not deny it. But we also work exceptionally hard in school. Most of us are business majors. On a weekend with an exam, frat row is dead quiet. You will have trouble finding somebody with a GPA below 3.3. Mine personally is a 3.8 (even though i have gotten drunk Monday-Saturday for the past three years.) In addition, stereotypes love to show pledging as a bunch of kids running around fixing the house, getting embarrassed in front of girls, etc. It is nothing like this at all. Pledging at any fraternity is remarkably secret, and that is why it has never been accurately portrayed. Those who have pledged will also not divulge pledging secrets. No two pledge processes are alike. I won't go into details, as it is obviously ritualistic and secretive, but pledging commonly has two rules - you won't get hit you won't have to do anything sexual with another guy. Anything and everything else goes, and as a pledge, when you are told to do something you don't want to (i use "don't want to" very lightly, as there are some horrific things that go on during pledging,) you just do it because you want to prove your worth, and you are also terrified. Some fraternities break the two golden rules. A drunk brother socked me across the face once when i was pledging. I know another fraternity made their pledges wrestle each other naked. Another is known for doing the imfamous elephant walk. This leads people to ask "why would you ever want to do this?" The insiders cannot explain, the outsiders cannot understand. It is best kept at that.