Only ones I knew of before coming to college were AEPi and AEPhi.

I think it also depends on where you live and how prominent the GLO is in that area. Before coming to college, I always heard about TriDelta, ZTA and DG. For the fraternities, I always heard about SigEp, KA (because my uncle was one at Furman and would always talk about his "glory days"), SAE and Pike.

I dont think you can get a true answer on a subject like this. Most of the GLO's being named, I never heard of before GC. It depends on where you from... In MY world, I would probably go with Omega Psi Phi (I am bias though :p ), but, if I had to pick one outside that, I would say Phi Beta Kappa.

Yes, KKG was mentioned in "Sex and the City" when Charlotte had lunch with her sorority sisters from college.
Also, in Legally Blonde (the book, not the movie), the stepsister who did the shooting was named as being a KKG.

Let's not forget Elle Woods' sorority: DN

Phi Beta Kappa. Period.

There was a book called "Let's Go Play at the Adams" or something like that, which I read just prior to college, and the babysitter was a Kappa Kappa Gamma. It was a horrifying book, BTW.

I also think it's how you grew up. On the street where I grew up, literally everyone who went to college was in a GLO, and strangely, no two people were in the same one. I had heard of (going down the street) KKG, ATO, ASA, TriDelta, Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Theta, ChiO, DTD, Delta Sigma Phi, AXO, KAT, Sigma Chi, Chi Phi, SAE, Theta Chi, TriSigma, Beta Theta Pi, LXA, TKE, APhi, AXD, KA, (and one ADPi!). Pretty awesome, when you consider that there are only 14 houses on the street!

But I agree, Phi Beta Kappa is THE best known, bar none.

I'm leaning more towards Delta House just because of one of the greatest movies of all time. Of course I am more have more of a personal bias for the popularity of Alpha Phi Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa, but only did the brothers of Delta Tau Chi teach me the about true meaning of brotherhood...at the age of 12 one night. Delta Tau Chi is not the most important, but I didn't have a clue what Phi Beta Kappa was until I actually did research about greek life. That org never came up amongst my friends or anything.

I read that book...I think I heard about it from the "disturbing books" thread. I vaguely remember the babysitter being a KKG, but yeah, that book was very disturbing. :eek:

Where I grew up and in my youth group especially, if you wanted to go Greek, your choices were only AEPhi or SDT. AEPi or ZBT if you're a guy. Myself and one other friend from my youth group one year went against that mold, and 5 years later, the rabbis and the advisors are all still talking about it.

People "across the country" overwhelmingly don't know and/or care about the names of specific GLOs. That's accounting for folks of various life experiences, races, and social classes.

But if I HAD to choose, I'd say whatever that fictional fraternity from Animal House or Tri Delt because of the "Delta Delta Delta--can I help ya, help ya help ya" jokes of the 90s.

Okay, I keep reading Phi Beta Kappa.

<---going to Google because I don't know what Phi Beta Kappa is

Here is a Phi Beta Kappa thread from ages ago

LOL...

As has been said many times in above post, out side of each others little area, many were not known. Well untill GC for sure.

But, since then, I am much more familiar with many more than the few at my two colleges.

One of the greateast sites has been produced and worked on very hard by one of our own GC Members:

http://www.threebluestars.com/greek/

Check it out and see what is there!:D

There's no easy answer. We are forgetting that by "most well known" we mean the general (read: non-Greek) population, not the biggest or most prestigious NIC, NPC, or D9 GLO. What we Greeks perceive as the "most well known" is going to depend on our region of the country, gender, race, religion, GLOs at our school, and Greek friends and family.