Which colleges/universities have little or no Greek life?

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Anonymous wrote:Yale. There are a few fraternities and sororities, but no one cares.

Yup. Harvard, too. And Princeton has eating clubs, no fraternities, does that count? Also MIT and Chicago - periphery frats, no one cares.

Actually, looking st my list, it occurs to me, probably none of the top 10 or so schools have a big fraternity presence.

Actually, eating clubs at Princeton operate just like frats in terms of their impact on social life.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale. There are a few fraternities and sororities, but no one cares.

Yup. Harvard, too. And Princeton has eating clubs, no fraternities, does that count? Also MIT and Chicago - periphery frats, no one cares.

Actually, looking st my list, it occurs to me, probably none of the top 10 or so schools have a big fraternity presence.

Actually, eating clubs at Princeton operate just like frats in terms of their impact on social life.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:University of Chicago.

True, U of C has no Greek life.

It doesn't have much life, period/

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Anonymous wrote:Yale. There are a few fraternities and sororities, but no one cares.

Yup. Harvard, too. And Princeton has eating clubs, no fraternities, does that count? Also MIT and Chicago - periphery frats, no one cares.

Actually, looking st my list, it occurs to me, probably none of the top 10 or so schools have a big fraternity presence.

Actually, eating clubs at Princeton operate just like frats in terms of their impact on social life.

No, the eating clubs are not just like frats. However, they still are significant in upperclass social life, particularly as they are the main dining option for juniors and seniors there. (My own view is they are too significant, but unfortunately that ship sailed about 25 years ago when some all-male, selective clubs went co-ed, thereby strengthening and perpetuating the selective "bicker" (or rush) aspect of the club scene.). At the same time, the clubs don't have quite the drinking (or the hazing) culture of many frats at other schools. There are also more viable options to the eating clubs than once existed, but alas, they remain pretty central.

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Anonymous wrote:Rice, Middlebury

Yes, but Middlebury has large houses that organized groups can organize and get through the housing systems, and basically they can function as de facto frat/sorority houses.

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Haverford. Bryn Mawr. Swarthmore has 2 or 3 semi-underground fraternities/sororities that make no significant difference.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale. There are a few fraternities and sororities, but no one cares.

Yup. Harvard, too. And Princeton has eating clubs, no fraternities, does that count? Also MIT and Chicago - periphery frats, no one cares.

Actually, looking st my list, it occurs to me, probably none of the top 10 or so schools have a big fraternity presence.

Actually, eating clubs at Princeton operate just like frats in terms of their impact on social life.

No, the eating clubs are not just like frats. However, they still are significant in upperclass social life, particularly as they are the main dining option for juniors and seniors there. (My own view is they are too significant, but unfortunately that ship sailed about 25 years ago when some all-male, selective clubs went co-ed, thereby strengthening and perpetuating the selective "bicker" (or rush) aspect of the club scene.). At the same time, the clubs don't have quite the drinking (or the hazing) culture of many frats at other schools. There are also more viable options to the eating clubs than once existed, but alas, they remain pretty central.

My DH went to Princeton and my nephew is currently a student there. Both were/are members of an eating club. The eating clubs operate like frats in that bicker is an exclusive process in which students make judgments of others based on physical appearance and social capital. And the drinking scene is just as bad as that at other schools, including Dartmouth, where said nephew's brother is a student.

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Anonymous wrote:Yale. There are a few fraternities and sororities, but no one cares.

Yup. Harvard, too. And Princeton has eating clubs, no fraternities, does that count? Also MIT and Chicago - periphery frats, no one cares.

Actually, looking st my list, it occurs to me, probably none of the top 10 or so schools have a big fraternity presence.

Actually, eating clubs at Princeton operate just like frats in terms of their impact on social life.

No, the eating clubs are not just like frats. However, they still are significant in upperclass social life, particularly as they are the main dining option for juniors and seniors there. (My own view is they are too significant, but unfortunately that ship sailed about 25 years ago when some all-male, selective clubs went co-ed, thereby strengthening and perpetuating the selective "bicker" (or rush) aspect of the club scene.). At the same time, the clubs don't have quite the drinking (or the hazing) culture of many frats at other schools. There are also more viable options to the eating clubs than once existed, but alas, they remain pretty central.

My DH went to Princeton and my nephew is currently a student there. Both were/are members of an eating club. The eating clubs operate like frats in that bicker is an exclusive process in which students make judgments of others based on physical appearance and social capital. And the drinking scene is just as bad as that at other schools, including Dartmouth, where said nephew's brother is a student.

That sounds horrendous. I can't see the appeal at all.

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Amherst ditched the frats. The former frat houses are now dorms.

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Bowdoin in ME has no sororities.

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I thought at Princeton that some of the eating clubs were sign in and more open than the bicker clubs. There always seems to be a difference of opinion about the eating clubs. When I think of Greek life I think of binge drinking, hazing, and being judgmental on who you let in your frat or sorority. Is this what the eating clubs are like?

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OP. thanks for the insights. To the one poster who asked why, it is because he doesn't 't want to go to a school where the dominating aspect of the social scene are exclusive clubs that select members based on appearance, social class, rave, ethnicity, etc. He prefers a school where students aren't categorized in this way, but rather are encouraged to befriend others who are superficially different, but may have things in common based on intellectual interests. Generally he believes that diversity adds to the intellectual environment.

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Anonymous wrote:OP. thanks for the insights. To the one poster who asked why, it is because he doesn't 't want to go to a school where the dominating aspect of the social scene are exclusive clubs that select members based on appearance, social class, rave, ethnicity, etc. He prefers a school where students aren't categorized in this way, but rather are encouraged to befriend others who are superficially different, but may have things in common based on intellectual interests. Generally he believes that diversity adds to the intellectual environment.

Thank you for answering that.

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Anonymous wrote:OP. thanks for the insights. To the one poster who asked why, it is because he doesn't 't want to go to a school where the dominating aspect of the social scene are exclusive clubs that select members based on appearance, social class, rave, ethnicity, etc. He prefers a school where students aren't categorized in this way, but rather are encouraged to befriend others who are superficially different, but may have things in common based on intellectual interests. Generally he believes that diversity adds to the intellectual environment.

Thank you for answering that.

Well said. Greek Life defeats diversity. You can assemble a diverse student body, but what good does it do is they self-segregate into non-diverse cliques?

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Anonymous wrote:Univ. of Notre Dame

NP here and Domer. That's partially why I chose ND- no Greek life.

+1 Me too. Signed, another Domer