<p>I'm a rising senior trying to decide which colleges to apply to.
I have nothing against Greek life and sororities/fraternities, but I don't think my personality doesn't really match Greek life.
I realize, yes, I don't need to join one if I don't want to, but I still prefer an university where Greek life isn't prevalent.</p>
<p>Since I want some top, reach schools to apply to, are there some suggestions of colleges with little Greek life? </p>
<p>Thank you so much!!</p>
<p>In addition to the suggestions you get, check out the SuperMatch button in the column on your left. You can select as one of your search’s criteria Greek life. </p>
<p>Amherst
Caltech
Harvey Mudd
Oberlin
Williams</p>
<p>However, some where fraternities and sororities are not a major part of social life have other organizations that fill some of the social roles:</p>
<p>Harvard – final clubs
Princeton – eating clubs</p>
<p>Very large schools may have some impressively large looking fraternity and sorority systems, but only a small percentage of students join (but a small percentage of a large number of students fills a lot of fraternity and sorority houses). For example, 96% of undergraduates at Texas are not in a fraternity or sorority, but that still means that about 1,600 students are in them.</p>
<p>Schools which you probably do not want to attend:</p>
<p>Dartmouth – 65% of eligible students (50% overall since frosh are not eligible) join fraternities and sororities
Washington and Lee – 81% join fraternities and sororities</p>
<p>The Princeton Review Guide to the Top 376 Colleges (or whatever number it is this year) covers this in detail for pretty much any top school you can think of. It was of my of my Go-To books during the college search process and is well worth the $18 it will cost to get a copy from Amazon. The new edition comes out Aug. 5. </p>
<p>What’s nice is they don’t just cover whether or not a Greek system exists, but how much it dominates the social scene. There are many schools where the Greeks exist, but are tamed. Other places where they’re small, but dominate. And other places where they’re huge and dominate. Or don’t exist at all. They cover it far better than CC can, and for far more schools. But if you have specific questions about any given school, that’s where CC can help.</p>
<p>Reed. This school defied greek life, competitive athletics, etc from its founding. Perhaps schools like Vassar, Sarah Lawrence as well?</p>
<p>UChicago. Greek life is almost nonexistent. Same goes for Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Anywhere you go you’re going to find parties and groups of friends that divide the school whether they be in the form of frats/sororities or clubs</p>
<p>No Greek life at Notre Dame, but the dorms are single-sex so some people say that is a sort of substitute. Dorm culture is WAY less exclusive than Greek culture, though.</p>
<p>I don’t think the Catholic schools have Greek life so Georgetown, ND, BC would probably work. Also (if you are female) you can look at the women’s colleges.</p>
<p>Although they don’t have Greek life, Notre Dame might still have exactly what OP is not looking for. The dorms and sport-dominated culture can lead to exactly the same party atmosphere as a Greek-dominated school.</p>
<p>Brandeis
Oberlin</p>
<p>Brown</p>
<p>Carleton, Grinnell, Macalester. WUSTL (Wash. U in St. Louis) has Greek life, but it is a small percentage i think.</p>
<p>Columbia has some Greek-letter organizations, but they are not central to college life there. I don’t think you’d find much emphasis on Greek life at Haverford, Swarthmore, or Reed, either. Williams actually banned them - the only Greek organizations are secret and “underground.” </p>
<p>Bates College (Lewiston, Maine)</p>
<p>Thank you to all of you!!</p>
<p>WUSTL has some serious greek life. Not what the OP is seeking at all.</p>
<p>NYU has very little greek life, and what does exist is laughable</p>
<p>^^Who needs Greek life when you’ve got Manhattan! Where something for every taste can be found - for a price.</p>
<p>Large amount of LACs ban greek life / have very small amounts.</p>