<p>What would you consider the Frattiest colleges in the country?</p>
<p>And by fratty I mean huge greek scene/preppy kids/etc</p>
<p>UVA is obvious but what are some other ones?</p>
<p>Washington and Lee</p>
<p>Dartmouth College (40% belong to fraternities or sororities)
Duke University (35% belong to fraternities and sororities)
Northwestern University (30% belong to fraternities or sororities)
University of Southern California
Vanderbilt University</p>
<p>Rhodes College in Memphis, pretty much any SEC school, Texas, W&L, College of Charleston, SMU, FSU.. I think that covers pretty much any college not already listed that has a big Greek scene.</p>
<p>A lot of these schools being said do have big Greek scenes, but that doesn’t equate to being preppy. I’d say UVa, Vanderbilt, UNC, SMU, UGa, Alabama… most southern schools (excluding Florida schools).</p>
<p>DePauw University in Indiana is notoriously greek–70+ percent of students belong to a frat or sorority. Literally every element of campus life is infiltrated by the greek scene.</p>
<p>There are two different meanings behind the word preppy.
Some use it to describe well-to-do (or well-to-do appearing) kids who are concerned with appearances and wear certain of today’s brands (Abercrombie & Fitch, etc.).</p>
<p>Others use it to describe, well, the old New England-style prep (bass weejuns, sperry topsiders, summer homes, old money, madras, LLBean, eccentric relatives, WASP, certain boarding schools, monograms, Muffy, Biffy and Buff).</p>
<p>Which way are you using the term? Because plenty of schools have large Greek populations but aren’t “preppy” in the latter sense of the word. DePauw is heavily Greek, but it’s not preppy.</p>
<p>MIT has a large frat population. Keep in mind, frats at one school aren’t necessarily like frats at another school.</p>
<p>agreed with venkat.</p>
<p>roughly 1/3 of the population at my school (case western) are in frats/sororities. Still, they’re very different here, and not quite as “fratty.”</p>
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<p><em>laugh</em> Somebody said it before I did. I couldn’t call us preppy by any stretch of the imagination though.</p>
<p>Pizzagirl: What are bass weejuns and sperry topsiders? Or Muffy, Biffy, and Buff? :)</p>
<p>^Weejuns and topsiders are shoes. Muffy, Biffy, and Buff are stereotypical old money nick names. How do I know this stuff? I go to Princeton. ;)</p>
<p>Places like Williams have no greek scene, yet I’d bet that they are still very preppy and fratty. Very different from the frattastic MIT.</p>
<p>“Muffy, Biffy, and Buff are stereotypical old money nick names. How do I know this stuff? I go to Princeton.”</p>
<p>LOL, exactly! Princeton has quite a prep contingent, even without Sigma Chi and Fiji houses! Preppiness has a strong social vibe to it; eating houses can be just as preppy as a real fraternity, and many fraternities aren’t preppy at all.</p>
<p>“many fraternities aren’t preppy at all”-
at an opposite extreme, think Animal House..and there are all imaginable variants in between.</p>
<p>University of Richmond. When you take their tour, they’ll tell you the frats are not big. Don’t believe it.</p>
<p>Illinois and Indiana where the frats still pretty much rule student government and social life.</p>
<p>“A lot of these schools being said do have big Greek scenes, but that doesn’t equate to being preppy. I’d say UVa, Vanderbilt, UNC, SMU, UGa, Alabama… most southern schools (excluding Florida schools).”</p>
<p>Yeah, the university of Mississippi is horibly fratty. But Mississippi state and Southern miss are pretty normal. So i think its mostly the flagship southern schools.</p>
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<p>Now that’s a pretty fratty place. Makes the others pale in comparison.</p>
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<p>Generally, “Fratty” schools are found only in the SEC. And Alexandre, I don’t know where you got those numbers, but they’re all underestimates.</p>
<p>Which schools are in the old New England preppy?</p>