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Nope not even anywhere near to close to being true. Great example is PiPhi at Nebraska and at Creighton. Two schools only about 50 minutes away, with a lot of girls from Nebraska. The UNL PiPhi's are party girls, just wild...the Creighton girls, particularly the ones I know, very VERY reserved, definitely good, down to earth girls.
Now some national organizations are relatively stronger in certain areas. I know that Beta Theta Pi has a great presence in the Midwest/Great Plains and Great Lakes area (so NE, KS, MO, OK, OH, MI, IL, etc.) while we're not as strong comparitively to other organizations in places like the Northeast and the South.
One more thing that prevents organizations from having a national reputation is the fact that Greek systems in the north and south, east and west are different and made of different types of people.
Now that said, the arguement could be made, in a very VERY general sense that some organizations do have a reputation that kind of permeates the history and thus the organization today - some of it may be based upon the principles of the organizations. But that obviously can't go across the board. I think for Beta there is a sense of trailblazing, being leaders in creating change. I also think that the stereotypical Beta is a intelligent guy. But I know that there are plenty of members who would be a stretch to apply that stereotype to (I know several in my own chapter even).
On the flip side, Beta was the fraternity that was made fun of in Animal House as the Omega Theta Pi house, the very old school, self-important, and pompous group. And I think that some of that can be accurate.
Other groups I can think of with a sort of a reputation: Kappa Alpha as southern Gentlemen (or racist good 'ol boys).
TKE are commonly seen as Greek rejects (the whole "if you can't go greek, join TKE) and a lot of people point to their expansion system and their organization at the national level will point to those things as evidence.
This isn't meant to incite anything, just how some groups tend to be seen. I think it's probably safer if everyone just points to their own organizations reputation, so long as they are honest about it.
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