<p>I really don’t want to go to a school filled with typical frat boys and sorority girls. I don’t mind having fraternities and sororities on campus, I just don’t want the people in them to actually be like the ones you see in bad teen movies. So which colleges are the most “frat boy” and which are the least? Thank you :)</p>
<p>What tier school are you aiming for? Ivy-Caliber, lower?</p>
<p>NYU probably has one of the lowest Greek scenes of any of the large research universities.</p>
<p>Brown - only a few and they are kinda alternate
Dartmouth - tons and they are having to endure some bad press right now, maybe deserved</p>
<p>Not these:
[Most</a> Students in Fraternities | Rankings | US News](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/most-frats]Most”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/most-frats)</p>
<p>Or these:
[Most</a> Students in Sororities | Rankings | US News](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/most-sororities]Most”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/most-sororities)
Or these:
http://**************.com/rankings/greek-life/
Also rankings on Princeton Review: [College</a> Rankings](<a href=“http://www.princetonreview.com/college-rankings.aspx]College”>Best Colleges 2023 | College Ranking List | The Princeton Review)</p>
<p>I think the big print edition of USNews and World Report college guide has a list of schools with the **least ** Greek participation. You can usually find a copy at your local library or in the guidance counselor’s office.
Most schools report Greek life statistics in the Common Data Set, so the information is out there.</p>
<p>I just noticed that CC’s own SuperMatch college search engine allows you to select as a criteria how you feel about Greek life:
“I want to join a sorority or fraternity.”
OR
“I prefer schools that don’t have Greek life” </p>
<p>I haven’t used it enough to see how it handles schools where there are frats/sororities but low participation…</p>
<p>Greek life is virtually nonexistent at UC Santa Cruz.</p>
<p>Georgetown has no Greek system whatsoever.</p>
<p>There are some liberal arts colleges that don’t have fraternities or sororities at all, as well as a handful of universities. Georgetown and Harvard come to mind.</p>
<p>The OP said “I really don’t want to go to a school filled with typical frat boys and sorority girls.”</p>
<p>Just because a college hosts fraternities and/or sororities does not mean they are filled with “typical frat boys and sorority girls.” Some are even filled with responsible, high-achieving men and brilliant, caring women.</p>
<p>Harvard has not-officially-recognized fraternities around, as well as “final clubs” that some may consider to be too fraternity-like for their tastes in some respects.</p>
<p>^^True enough. The final clubs provide the usual frat grand slam of over-indulgence in social exclusion, hazing, drinking, and casual sex. So the only thing they lack to be true frats are Greek letters. </p>
<p>However, the final clubs are easy enough ignore or avoid. You can go your full four years at Harvard and have very little interaction with or even awareness of the final club scene if you so choose.</p>
<p>Harvard has three national sororities (off-campus, unrecognized but healthy) and female final clubs, as well.</p>
<p>Holy Cross has no Greek system.</p>
<p>Rice - great school, no fraternities.</p>
<p>My D1 is at Haverford which has no fraternities or sororities, a very strong point in its favor with her. It was her first choice, she applied ED & was accepted. Some other schools on her list, in part due to little/no Greek life: Brown, Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Bryn Mawr (women only).</p>