LACs without Greek life?

[Anonymous]

Can anyone give me names of colleges without Greek life? We visited the Ohio LACs. She liked Kenyon and Wooster, but was turned off by the fact that they had prominent Greek systems. Any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Whoops- Swarthmore has 2 fraternities and according to their CDS about 11% of students participate. Not a school really known for Greek life whatsoever.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Oberlin has none. My daughter loves it!

[Anonymous]

Carleton

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

I agree with this.

[Anonymous]

Grinnell.

[Anonymous]

Skidmore

[Anonymous]

Wooster's Greek organizations are not affiliated with the national organizations.

Other SLACs without Greeks are:

Clark
Williams
Mary Washington U.

[Anonymous]

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.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.