<p>For those who are shopping for colleges, I think this thread (and the zillions of others about Greek life) show that you need to look at the situation at the specific schools you are considering. If you don’t like the idea that girls are “rated” by what sorority they belong to, or that the Greeks dominate the social scene, or that rush is brutal–then it seems to me that you might want to look at schools where that isn’t the case, rather than planning to rise above it or ignore it.</p>