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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Counterintuitively, larger schools tend to be much better for introverts and students not interested in fraternities or sororities. There is a much bigger space for students to find their thing. Most SLACs would be nightmares for kids not interested in participating in Greek life.[/quote]

Agreed.

I went to a huge Big Ten school with one of the largest Greek systems in the country and regularly gets onto the top party school lists. Yet, there are also so many groups, activities and even specific dorms and living areas that are decidedly not Greek or attract any type of Greek-oriented people at all.

I lived in a living learning community dorm for my first couple of years of college that was, for lack of a better term, pretty much all “artsy” people and the opposite of the Greek scene. I was actually in the minority there as a sporty business major that loves big-time football and basketball, but it was a great experience since it was almost like a liberal arts college community within a larger campus. (The number of students living in the dorm itself is probably the size of a lot of liberal arts schools.)

In any event, take heed of the advice that in a counterintuitive way, the larger schools (even those huge Big Ten/SEC with huge Greek systems) actually also often accommodate the non-sporty/non-Greek students better or at least provide more options. In contrast, if a personality doesn’t match with a small liberal arts college, it’s totally stifling because the school population is so small.[/quote]

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