How do parent feel about Greek Life?

Hunt
Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:47:35 +0000

But, are you saying you don’t want your kid at a school where it is “too dominated” by drunken greek life? Maybe avoid the SEC.

That is pretty much what I’m saying (or really, what she’s saying). But for her, it’s not really the “drunken” part of it, but what kind of social system or hierarchy there is. Just as an example, she’s negative about Princeton because of the role of the selective eating clubs. I don’t think Princeton is a den of drunken debauchery (relatively speaking, at least), so it doesn’t matter much to me. And…

Is it any harder to find out whether a campus is “too dominated” by drunken Greek life than it is to find out whether it’s dominated by any other social clique or milieu – e.g., so liberal that a conservative would feel horribly out of place / isolated / not welcome (or vice versa)?

I don’t think any of these are necessarily easy–but you can make a list of especially liberal schools. When it comes to schools dominate by Greeks, it appears to be primarily the SEC that is fingered. The level of Greek “dominance” isn’t easy, because it doesn’t appear to relate necessily to how many students go Greek.