<p>As I begin looking into possible universities, I want to make sure I consider the student life of the universities I am interested in.</p>
<p>Do any of you attend or know about any Top 100 colleges with great Greek/non-Greek relations? I really have no interest in the Greek system and I do not want to attend a college where I am completely surrounded by one.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Look for schools with less than 20%, but preferably <15% greek participation. Also note that the “flavor” of greeks can be different at different schools. For instance, both MIT and University of Alabama have higher than average greek participation rates, and are both “Top 100” institutions. But I HIGHLY doubt that the frats at MIT even remotely resemble those at Bama.</p>
<p>When you say top 100, if we’re going by the US News criteria, the rankings actually list the percentage of men and women involved in greek life if you click on each school.</p>
<p>Colleges with no Greek societies:</p>
<p>Agnes Scott
Amherst
Bard
Bates
Boston College
Bowdoin
Brandeis
BYU
Bryn Mawr
Caltech
Carleton
Catholic University
Claremont McKenna
Clark
Colby
College of the Holy Cross
Columbia
Connecticut College
Earlham
Fordham
Georgetown
Goucher
Grinnell
Guilford
Hampshire
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
Haverford
Hendrix
Ithaca
Juniata
Lewis & Clark
Loyola MD
Macalester
Marlborough
Middlebury
Mt. Holyoke
New College FL
Oberlin Pitzer
Princeton (has “eating clubs”)
Reed
Rice
Sarah Larence
Scripps
Skidmore
Smith
St. Mary’s MD
St. Olaf
Notre Dame
University of RI
Vassar
Warren Wilson
Wellesley
Wheaton College (IL)
Wheaton College (MA)
Williams
Yale</p>
<p>(Sources: C<em>llege Pr</em>wler and USNWR)</p>
<p>^
I’m not sure how accurate that list is…off the top of my head, I know Harvard and Yale have Greek life, and some of the others may too. </p>
<p>In any case, I prefer whenhen’s approach. You have significantly more options if you don’t demand the complete absence of Greek life, and at many colleges the Greek scene is quite small. (UNCA, for example, offers a mere two sororities and one frat.)</p>
<p>I would also investigate housing policies. Some colleges (e.g. Rhodes) do not allow frats/sororities to have housing, so they live in the residence halls and apartments with everyone else. That severely reduces any segregation that you might otherwise have with a large Greek scene.</p>
<p>^ Those are schools shown on the C<em>llege Pr</em>wler or USNWR site with a mark of “N/A” for Greek life. CP has a rating for the quality of Greek life (a letter grade) or else “N/A”. The USNWR site shows the percentage of men in fraternities and women in sororities, or else “N/A”.</p>
<p>In some cases, “N/A” may simply mean not enough information was found to evaluate the quality or participation levels. </p>
<p>Here’s a report on Greek life at Harvard:
[Fourth</a> Sorority To Join Greek Life | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/4/3/fourth-sorority-added-panhellenic/]Fourth”>Fourth Sorority To Join Greek Life | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>
<p>I’d check out Rice. It has no Greek or any comparable system (some schools have other societies which basically play the same role as Greek). Instead it has a residential college system which is really cool (other schools like Harvard and Yale have these as well).</p>
<p>I also know for a fact that Princeton has Greek life. It if not officially affiliated with the university, so they really have no oversight or control over it, but it is there. The Eating Clubs are still much more important. Princeton is trying to replace a lot of this with a “residential college” type thing, but as of now Whitman is the only one.</p>
<p>Jesuit schools like Holy Cross.</p>
<p>Jesuit schools dont really have Greek life, I know Gtown doesn’t recognize any frats other than the community service one, which isnt a true frat in any case. The only other majorish frat at Gtown is the foreign service one. Frat life isnt major at all on campus in any case and there are no real substitutes for it, like the eating clubs at Princeton and the finals clubs at Harvard</p>
<p>As mentioned above, the absence or minimal presence of fraternities and sororities at a school does not necessarily mean the absence of organizations that may have some similar characteristics, like “eating clubs”, “finals clubs”, etc… Whether these have the characteristics that are undesirable to you is something that you need to investigate.</p>