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Anonymous wrote:This is OP. I know this is over-simplifying but my daughter is looking a tier lower than from what maybe she could have a shot at because we can’t afford $70-80 thousand. This sounds whiney but it feels like this makes it hard to avoid party-schools, which she would like to do. The big state schools seem so Greek and overwhelming to her — we visited some.)

Though I went to an Ivy and frats ruled the weekends because the school was so isolated.)

My DC goes to VT and it is less than 20% Greek. She didn't have any desire to join a sorority and had plenty of company - most students do not go Greek. She's got a great group of friends and is involved in many different activities.

Yep. I went to VT. Greek life didn't matter for the social scene. One of the things I loved about Tech.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a whole bunch of "fratty" SLAC/Universities in Ohop, Pennsylvania and Indiana that fits this - Miami of Ohio/Dennison type places, and then the entire SEC (alabama, Vandy, Auburn) - and actually most southern schools, with Rice being the exception.

Vandy doesn't belong on this list. Sure there are a lot of greek and/or sporty kids but plenty that are not and there is so much to do in Nashville that has nothing to do with sports or frats.

Vandy has the highest Greek percentage in the whole got dam SEC.

This is not close to being true. Vanderbilt has the least amount of Greek students in the SEC. Have you forgotten Alabama? Or Mississippi? Are you aware of what the SEC is? Vanderbilt is an anomaly in the SEC. Greek life is probably comparable to Cornell. It's there but it hardly dominates the campus like it does at other southern schools.

1. VANDERBILT

Students Participating In Greek Life: 43 percent
Fraternity: 32 percent
Sorority: 54 percent

2. OLE MISS

Students Participating In Greek Life: 37 percent
Fraternity: 33 percent
Sorority: 41 percent

3. AUBURN

Students Participating In Greek Life: 31 percent
Fraternity: 24 percent
Sorority: 38 percent

4. ARKANSAS

Students Participating In Greek Life: 28.5 percent
Fraternity: 21 percent
Sorority: 36 percent

5. MISSOURI

Students Participating In Greek Life: 27. 5 percent
Fraternity: 24 percent
Sorority: 31 percent

6. GEORGIA

Students Participating In Greek Life: 25.5 percent
Fraternity: 22 percent
Sorority: 29 percent

7. LSU

Students Participating In Greek Life: 22.5 percent
Fraternity: 17 percent
Sorority: 28 percent

There is not enough information available in the Princeton Review data to completely assess the percentage of students participating in Greek life at Alabama, Florida, Kentucky and Texas A&M. In these cases, it was a lack of sorority involvement figures.

Alabama’s website claims it has 33 percent participation in Greek life. That would place the Tuscaloosa school behind No. 2 Ole Miss and ahead of Auburn. If we’re going by the trends — where sorority life participation is higher than its fraternal counterpart — Florida (20 percent fraternity) and Kentucky (18 percent fraternity) likely end up in the same neighborhood as LSU in the low 20s, and find themselves slightly ahead of Mississippi State, South Carolina and Tennessee. Texas A&M, with about 10 percent of its students taking part in Greek life, rounds out the bottom of the list.