[OPhiARen3]

Just looking for some opinions/ideas on this - my impression is that for NPC/IFC orgs, there is a lot of variety from chapter to chapter regarding the "personality" of the sorority/fraternity, and for NPHC orgs, this doesn't really seem to be as much the case. The NPHC orgs I guess just seem to be more standard in that regard - if you ask someone what the culture, etc., is like for an NPHC group, they usually are able to answer you, while for the NPC/IFC groups, people always say it depends from school to school.

I was wondering what you all think accounts for this - the way that recruitment works, the number of orgs, history, marketing? Something else entirely? Is one way better, or are they equally valid? Personally, I am a little confused about what seems to be a lack of real national identity for the NPC/IFC orgs, but perhaps this is just because not being in one of those orgs there is a lot that I don't see. Are they all essentially the same at the national level? What are the differences?