There are no fraternities in Poland, at least none that I am aware of. Reading this thread, I came to believe that main purpose of frats is making new friends and/or creating artificial bonds with other people. This does not make much sense here -- the country is not that big, and many people attend universities near their living place and they don't feel so lost in a completely new place, as they commute every day. People whose universities are too far for them to commute, frequently live in school's dormitory, and its social system pretty much resembles the fraternity's one.
The correlation between fraternities and the quality of education is in my opinion artificial. I don't really know much about the US system, but I guess the main reason behind such quality is high funding.
Yeah, being Polish too I never get these artificial forms of socializing which I always see in American movies. I even don't get these 'drinking games' - can't you just drink the booze and talk/party without all those strange add-ons - games, contests, tests?
I don't know a lot of Americans but I always thought it's a nationality easy to socialize with, and most of which I met IRL confirmed this POV. Existence of such organized social groups always make me wonder - why do you need them?
The correlation between fraternities and the quality of education is in my opinion artificial. I don't really know much about the US system, but I guess the main reason behind such quality is high funding.