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<p>I know its not a major part of campus, but can a current student give a frat-by-frat, sorority-by-sorority description of the greek organizations on campus? The stuff I’d be interested in is stereotypes, type of guy/girl, sport affiliations, hazing process, eating club connections, and any other information that would be of interest to an incoming frosh. </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>There’s usually a run down of the frats in the issue of the ‘Prince’ that’s sent to incoming freshmen over the summer. In the meantime, here are some links you might find helpful:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/538545-frats-sorority-feeders.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/538545-frats-sorority-feeders.html&lt;/a&gt;
[Behind</a> Greek Lines - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/section/behindgreeklines/]Behind”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/section/behindgreeklines/)</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/457357-sorority-reputations.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/457357-sorority-reputations.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/731887-clubs-reputations.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/731887-clubs-reputations.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/734093-rush-la-princeton.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/734093-rush-la-princeton.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Just a note: I don’t know nearly as much about frat reputations as I should.</p>

<p>Frats:
AEPi: lots of Jews (Ivy, some TI)
SAE: very preppy and fratty at the same time (Ivy, TI)
Pike: does not have a strong stereotype (TI)
Phi Kap: ditto (Cap)
Sigma Chi: just graduated from colony status (affiliation unclear)
KA: Southern in flavor (Cottage)
Chi Phi: don’t know about the stereotype (TI, some Ivy)
Beta: football players (Cottage, some Cap)
Deke: does not have a strong stereotype (affiliation unclear)
Zete: some water polo here (TI, Ivy)
Phi Delta Theta: new colony (affiliation unknown, but TI is a good bet because a fair amount of wrestlers joined)</p>

<p>Sororities
Kappa: nicest, most diverse girls - but they’re not the prettiest (Cloister, Cap, some Cottage)
Pi Phi: messy, trashy hot girls (TI, Ivy)
Theta: moderately attractive girls who are put-together, well-mannered, and come off as stuck-up (they’re everywhere, but mostly in Ivy and Cottage)</p>

<p>Co-ed
Delta Psi (St. A’s): artsy, literary people, well-dressed. The dudes can be kind of effeminate. Holds rush in the spring rather than in the fall. (Ivy, Tower, Terrace)</p>

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<p>thanks ray and weas, rly helpful</p>

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<p>i would basically agree that theta is the “moderate” sorority, although recently i think theta and pi phi are converging and attracting very similar girls. they’re pretty much equally sought after. the great division is between kappa and the other two, not between theta and pi phi.</p>

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<p>it seems that a lot of these frats and sororities feed into TI and Ivy.</p>

<p>How does this work? - they belong to frats and sororities freshman and sophomore years then switch over to the eating clubs for junior and senior years?</p>

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<p>ray, now you have done it - all the undergraduate men are going to want to join TI and Ivy now</p>

<p>ha!</p>

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<p>JohnAdams12, you join a Greek organization in the fall of your freshman year (or spring for A’s), which can often help you successfully bicker a club sophomore spring. You remain a member of the Greek organization for your entire four years at Princeton. It’s worth noting that certain frats are better at getting their members into bicker clubs than others – SAE and Zete are probably the most successful.</p>

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<p>Weasel is right, certain Greek organizations are much better than others at getting into bicker clubs. This past year, I believe a total of just two Pi Phis and four Thetas (out of roughly thirty bickering from each sorority) were hosed from any club. In contrast, about half of the Kappas who bickered were hosed. St. A’s also fared poorly this time around, getting slightly less than half of their bickerees accepted. Pike, Deke, and Sigma Chi also didn’t do so hot.</p>

<p>The “top” frats are SAE, Zete, and KA. Because SAEs are usually locks to get in, it was a BIG deal that an SAE was blackballed from Ivy this year. You can assume the frats that I didn’t mention explicitly in this post did alright.</p>

<p>P.S. John, I know you were kidding, but I find that a significant proportion of the student body is slightly “anxious” around Ivy and TI. They worry that they don’t have the right kind of breeding to be accepted at Ivy, and they worry that they aren’t hard enough of drinkers to feel comfortable at TI.</p>

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<p>AEPi is now mostly in TI and Ivy I think, but there is usually an AEPi contingent in Terrace too. I believe the current vice president of terrace is in AEPi.</p>

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<p>can anyone elaborate on sae zete and ka? what the kids are like in each one and what the hazing process is like for each. also, how long is pledge?</p>

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<p>Read the Prince if you want a story on SAE hazing…</p>