<p>My Radcliff friend and her Harvard H’s D went to Earlham. I had a very good friend who went back in the day and participated in the GLCA program to spend a semester a my college and the NYC semester. My son just got accepted at one of the GLCA colleges and I won’t be crying if that’s the one he picks. Well kept secrets that Midwestern’s have known for generations.</p>
<p>Re: post #37: according to Gettysburg College’s Common data set (tab F), the male Greek population is 38% and the female is 26%. The Greek presence at Gettysburg is regularly overstated. And the absence of Greek life seems to have little bearing on the amount of partying on campus. We chose my son’s college largely because it has 0% Greek life, and the students drink like fish. Just my two cents.</p>
<p>Lots of overlap between the GLCA colleges and the CTCL colleges. I live in a town that hosts one of them and know many, many kids at GLCA colleges. I’d have been very happy if S had chosen any one of them.</p>
<p>Davidson College is a top liberal arts school near Charlotte,NC. They offer two full tuition, room& board, & summer stipend scholarships without regard to need. The Belk Scholarship requires nomination by the student’s high school. There are about 5 Belk scholars each year. The Baker Scholarship offers the same benefits, and recipients are chosen by the admissions staff. There are two Baker Scholars each year. Ask your son’s school to nominate him for the Belk Scholarship (late summer before the student’s senior year). Davidson does have fraternities and non selective womens eating houses, but most parties are open to everyone and this is not a big party school.</p>
<p>Davidson also requires the NCP.</p>
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<p>You need to read TAB-F of the CDS a little more carefully.
Gettysburg’s reported 38% male Greekdom is a percentage of all undergraduates.
Freshemen are not allowed to be members of fraternities.</p>
<p>Read my post again - I said almost half of non-freshmen.
Based upon an estimate that all four classes at G-burg are pretty evenly divided, I stand by my math. ;)</p>
<p>^GolfFather, I guess I don’t understand why that distinction is so important, unless one’s intent is just to over-emphasize the Greek presence on campus. The influence of the Greeks (or any other group) would be determined by its proportion relative to the entire student body, wouldn’t it? Presumably a student would socialize not only with kids in his grade (and almost certainly not only with males!), so if those assumptions are correct, that would leave him with about 2/3 of the Gettysburg student body who are NOT Greek.</p>
<p>None of this has anything to do with the OPs original question, because Gettysburg is not like Swarthmore, IMO, but I just like the college to be portrayed accurately. BTW, during her four years at Gettysburg, my daughter hung out both with the Greek one-third and the non-Greek two-thirds, and she liked both groups equally!</p>
<p>And as I said in my earlier post, my sons 100% Greek-free college could teach Gettysburg a thing or two about partying. Disappointing but true. Outside of Brigham Young, Grove City College, and some evangelical Christian colleges, the social outlet of choice seems to be heavy partying (at some schools its more in the form of street drugs instead of alcohol, but its almost everywhere in one form or another).</p>
<p>(Sorry, OP. Back to the original intent of the thread now!)</p>