I agree with a lot of what Andy said, and it sounds like we are in the same boat. I went to a large university (graduated 4 years ago) with one of the largest Greek systems in the country. We have about 40 fraternities and 20 sororities, give or take. New ones keep popping up all the time, while other ones fold or leave campus for a couple of years.
I was in one of the smaller chapters on campus--we had between 40 and 50 members, depending on the year. The biggest chapters had over 100 members. I would say the average fraternity had about 70-75. The social situation on my campus was the same as Andy described--the best sororities pretty much stuck to doing social activities with about 10-12 of the biggest fraternities. They really didn't care about the smaller houses--I bet a lot of them didn't even know that some of the smaller houses even existed. On a big campus, it's really hard for a smaller house to make a name for itself and get noticed by the big sororities. So as it was, there were only about 3 or 4 sororities that would even give us the time of day.
On the other hand, the quality of our members was sky-high. We had a lot of really good guys, and I'm happy with the friends I made in the house. That's the most important thing to keep in mind...a certain house may have the biggest parties and do things with the best sororities, but you really have to be sure that you get along with the guys in the house as well.
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