LACs without Greek life?

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Anonymous wrote:Most of the NESCACs have abolished fraternities.......Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, etc.

But don't Amherst and Williams have underground frats and societies? I know Wesleyan does.

Not really. Amherst has cracked down on fraternities pretty ruthlessly in recent years (including outright abolishing them in 2014- lots of articles on the matter). Opinions from students and alums are mixed, but on the whole negative because those groups were what gave Amherst its social life (their parties were open to all students regardless of involvement). In exchange, Amherst built the PowerHouse as the social hub of the college.

There is an athlete divide though- non-athletes and athletes don't really intermingle.

Amherst banned frats in 1984 (all frats were coed at the time). A few of them hung on as underground frats for 2 decades but they've faded away and frats have practically zero presence on campus now. Re: athlete-non athlete divide, it is present at most SLACs including Williams, Wesleyan and Swarthmore. Because of the school's smaller student population, recruited athletes make up about 30% of the student body at each of these schools. Amherst is the only school to publish a public paper about it a few years ago.

One would think some sort of athlete/non-athlete divide is present in all colleges.

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Haverford

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Anonymous wrote:Most LACs lack greek life. Williams/Amherst/Swarthmore/Middlebury/Bowdoin/Carleton have none. Pomona has one but less than 5% of students are in them and they have no special housing/privileges. The only prominent ones I can think of are at the southern LACs- Washington and Lee/Davidson.

Greek life is big at Bowdoin and Trinity.

The Ohio schools (OWU, Denison, Wooster, Kenyon) also have Greek organizations.

Bowdoin does not have greek life - https://www.bowdoin.edu/studentaffairs/student-handbook/college-policies/fraternity-membership-policy.shtml

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I wouldn't rule out all colleges with Greek Life. It can be avoided on some campuses. Obviously, you wouldn't pick Wash. & Lee, but UVA gets a bum rap for its Greek life but I have a student there and she has never stepped foot in a Sorority or Frat house yet.

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St. Mary’s College of Maryland

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Op- I'll suggest Grinnell to Grinnell, that might be a good fit. Also, a lot of people are suggesting schools that will likely be reaches.

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Anonymous wrote:Most LACs lack greek life. Williams/Amherst/Swarthmore/Middlebury/Bowdoin/Carleton have none. Pomona has one but less than 5% of students are in them and they have no special housing/privileges. The only prominent ones I can think of are at the southern LACs- Washington and Lee/Davidson.

Greek life is big at Bowdoin and Trinity.

The Ohio schools (OWU, Denison, Wooster, Kenyon) also have Greek organizations.

Bates has a long standing tradition of egalitarianism and never had a greek system. It's a great school with a laid back and fun culture along with LOTS of snow (which was fun in college).

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't rule out all colleges with Greek Life. It can be avoided on some campuses. Obviously, you wouldn't pick Wash. & Lee, but UVA gets a bum rap for its Greek life but I have a student there and she has never stepped foot in a Sorority or Frat house yet.

It's the social division that worries her. She's not an athlete and she has no desire to join a sorority, so she wants a very socially inclusive atmosphere.

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Anonymous wrote:The women's colleges are like one giant sorority, the good kind, not that party kind.

+1

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Brandeis

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Vassar didn't have Greek life when I was there in the early 2000s.

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Anonymous wrote:Brandeis

Brandeis actually has off campus frats/sor.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't rule out all colleges with Greek Life. It can be avoided on some campuses. Obviously, you wouldn't pick Wash. & Lee, but UVA gets a bum rap for its Greek life but I have a student there and she has never stepped foot in a Sorority or Frat house yet.

It's the social division that worries her. She's not an athlete and she has no desire to join a sorority, so she wants a very socially inclusive atmosphere.

She doesn't sound ready for college. That's not how college works. She needs to find her crowd in the group. and that what Greek life is great for.

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Women's colleges... Hollins, Mary Baldwin, Sweetbriar. No sororities.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't rule out all colleges with Greek Life. It can be avoided on some campuses. Obviously, you wouldn't pick Wash. & Lee, but UVA gets a bum rap for its Greek life but I have a student there and she has never stepped foot in a Sorority or Frat house yet.

It's the social division that worries her. She's not an athlete and she has no desire to join a sorority, so she wants a very socially inclusive atmosphere.

She doesn't sound ready for college. That's not how college works. She needs to find her crowd in the group. and that what Greek life is great for.

Hmm. Funny, because I'd usually say that people who need to rely on greek life aren't ready for college.