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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid who is there tells me that it's actually good that greek life is so active and widespread. This means it becomes the norm and no one gets left out or make a big deal about it. It's chill and they enjoy themselves. [/quote]

I’ve been at schools with very formal Greek systems and Dartmouth’s fraternities are very different. Plenty of people don’t actually live in the houses and many of them are not national fraternities. A lot of them remind me of the theme houses at Stanford or the off-campus houses for fraternities at Yale. Many of them had 75-80% overlap with specific sports teams when I was an undergrad but I don’t know if that’s still the case.

The parties are basically no different than off-campus house parties or dorm parties at other schools, with rare exceptions. Very open and welcoming. When I went back as a grad student at Dartmouth the undergrads even invited us to parties- it was weird to me as a grown adult who had been in the workforce for years…and yet I went to them anyway. It’s a small place and there’s definitely a sense of having to make your own fun, for better or for worse.[/quote]

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