<p>Your description of Cornell is way off base, or accurate only for a subset of the community. There are over 13,000 undergraduates there. attending 7 different colleges. Due to the variety of progams and colleges , the student body there is quite diverse, making stereotyping particularly misleading.</p>
<p>There are jocks, and there are people who have nothing to do with athletics at all. The university community is large enough that you can find your own group of compatible individuals.</p>
<p>Fraternities provide great social experiences, hopefully, for the people who are into that scene. But that constitutes a minority of the student body there, not a majority. My daughter is not in a sorority and is having a great experience there socially,.</p>