When I went for my first bachelors (as a traditional aged student) I attend a school where fraternities and sororites were not allowed. They went against the original charter of the school which was something like "all opportunies for all students". We had NO groups on campus that excluded anyone. In fact, we were the first college in the country to be coed from it's inception (Oberlin, I think - beat us out for first coed college - but they started out all male and we never did). Anyway, it was a small school, so there really wasn't a need for them.

When I got my second bachelors at a big FL school, greek life was pretty huge, but I didn't bother as I was significantly older than 'traditional' coeds.

My brother went to a large southern school and he was in a fraternity. Without it, he would have been lost in the massive student body, I think.


Trisk - I didn't know you went to Brandeis either! I have one credit from there as I took a summer calculus course there when I was an undergrad. One of my closest friends from HS went there and loved it.