Colleges with Frats that don’t drink

[Anonymous]

Michigan is bad.

Stanford has no alcohol during recruitment cycles. Houses can (and have) been disbanded after one offense. I'm sure it used to be different. There were lawsuits - things change.

I'm not shocked UVA is bad. I think anything southern school is going to be different.

Cornell has a TON of greek like that have nothing to do with partying.

I wish people would add their ages and/or ages of their kids. Even if your kid went to college prepandemic, it's different. Colleges used that to reset a lot of things. They realized when they had a couple years of no upperclassman to say, "we can't change that!", they had a moment of opportunity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP—Genuine question: If a kid really and truly cannot drink (medical), but really fits well and gets a bid, how do they handle pledging? I know they are not supposed to haze. But many do. How do you suss this out during rush? Does the kid simply state the situation or bring it up later when offered a drink? It’s the pledging part that I am curious about.

Honestly…a frat with a drinking culture won’t give a kid a bid…it’s part of the rush scene as well.

Your scenario just won’t play out.

I’ve seen it work out where kid’s dad is a very famous CEO/finance and employs lots of graduates. Kid also has access to private plane. That kid got a pass from hazing/ the hard drinking part of pledging and every house wanted him.

Ok…so less than 1% can get a bid…I gather if you are celebrity, you could also get a pass.

For everyone else…you just won’t get a bid if that is the frat culture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michigan is bad.

Stanford has no alcohol during recruitment cycles. Houses can (and have) been disbanded after one offense. I'm sure it used to be different. There were lawsuits - things change.

I'm not shocked UVA is bad. I think anything southern school is going to be different.

Cornell has a TON of greek like that have nothing to do with partying.

I wish people would add their ages and/or ages of their kids. Even if your kid went to college prepandemic, it's different. Colleges used that to reset a lot of things. They realized when they had a couple years of no upperclassman to say, "we can't change that!", they had a moment of opportunity

Cornell had a hazing death that made it to the NYT. Private school kid from Miami.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michigan is bad.

Stanford has no alcohol during recruitment cycles. Houses can (and have) been disbanded after one offense. I'm sure it used to be different. There were lawsuits - things change.

I'm not shocked UVA is bad. I think anything southern school is going to be different.

Cornell has a TON of greek like that have nothing to do with partying.

I wish people would add their ages and/or ages of their kids. Even if your kid went to college prepandemic, it's different. Colleges used that to reset a lot of things. They realized when they had a couple years of no upperclassman to say, "we can't change that!", they had a moment of opportunity

I have a kid at Cornell. It’s def part of the culture.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/13/nyregion/cornell-fraternities-hazing-death-antonio-tsialas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michigan is bad.

Stanford has no alcohol during recruitment cycles. Houses can (and have) been disbanded after one offense. I'm sure it used to be different. There were lawsuits - things change.

I'm not shocked UVA is bad. I think anything southern school is going to be different.

Cornell has a TON of greek like that have nothing to do with partying.

I wish people would add their ages and/or ages of their kids. Even if your kid went to college prepandemic, it's different. Colleges used that to reset a lot of things. They realized when they had a couple years of no upperclassman to say, "we can't change that!", they had a moment of opportunity

saying there is greek like that has nothing to do with partying =/= there are no greeks that do have heavy drinking. the OP is asking is there room for her kid, and yes, there are plenty of places with room for her kid.

[Anonymous]

Check Greek rank for some descriptions of houses

[Anonymous]

Greek affiliation greatly increases the odds of binge drinking, so your son’s preferences are somewhat opposing.

I suggest you look up the survey responses on UNIGO related to how much pressure there is to drink on various campuses.

He might also consider St Olaf’s which sounds like a great place.

[Anonymous]

My son graduated last may from VT and was in one of the smaller frats. While he drinks and most of the brothers do too it would have been fine if someone didn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son graduated last may from VT and was in one of the smaller frats. While he drinks and most of the brothers do too it would have been fine if someone didn’t.

You aren’t really there, and can’t speak to how a freshman teenager would feel.

[Anonymous]

LOL!!! I went to MIT and we drank hard. We also were the only school in the NE where the average frat/sorority GPA was above the general population of students. At no time was the administration concerned about our academic performance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The frats reputations are pretty well known.

I work on a campus and there are plenty of kids in frats who don’t drink. Big I don’t work at Alabama etc. I’m sure there are some schools where drinking is their main thing, as someone pointed out above. That hasn’t been the vibe on our campus for 15 years at least, but this is super school dependent. Colleges w frats take vastly different approaches, usually based in history.

I am sure there are nondrinkers in frats but I doubt they made it through pledging and hazing without drinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:LOL!!! I went to MIT and we drank hard. We also were the only school in the NE where the average frat/sorority GPA was above the general population of students. At no time was the administration concerned about our academic performance.

I went to Harvard and the MIT people drank us under the table.

My daughter is at MIT and doesn’t drink (she had an organ transplant and can’t). She said weed and pills much bigger than drinking. “It’s not the 90s anymore, Mom”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:LOL!!! I went to MIT and we drank hard. We also were the only school in the NE where the average frat/sorority GPA was above the general population of students. At no time was the administration concerned about our academic performance.

I went to Harvard and the MIT people drank us under the table.

My daughter is at MIT and doesn’t drink (she had an organ transplant and can’t). She said weed and pills much bigger than drinking. “It’s not the 90s anymore, Mom”

Too many pills at MIT.
Btw today, the Harvard kids go to MIT to party.

[Anonymous]

Fraternities

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michigan is bad.

Stanford has no alcohol during recruitment cycles. Houses can (and have) been disbanded after one offense. I'm sure it used to be different. There were lawsuits - things change.

I'm not shocked UVA is bad. I think anything southern school is going to be different.

Cornell has a TON of greek like that have nothing to do with partying.

I wish people would add their ages and/or ages of their kids. Even if your kid went to college prepandemic, it's different. Colleges used that to reset a lot of things. They realized when they had a couple years of no upperclassman to say, "we can't change that!", they had a moment of opportunity

We stayed near the corner on a Thursday night and my athletic, non-drinking son was turned off by the party scene. My husband and I loved it. lol But- I’m glad he’s not into that. Went to a smaller school.