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Latino Greeks were bigger at my school than the NPHC groups, for whatever reason. There were more Caribbean blacks than African-Americans, so most of them gravitated towards the Latino groups, since there seemed to be more cultural similarities with Latinos than with American blacks. This held true for my grad school too, but it was smack in the middle of a few large Latino neighborhoods. The Asian fraternities and sororities were even bigger at both places.
I think after high school, that kids of color will gravitate towards their own ethnic group--especially if they had to assimilate during high school. For a kid who was the only Black/Asian/Latino person in their grade, neighborhood, or social group growing up, it's seriously like being offered a drink of water after being in the desert for 18 years; this feeling is even stronger if the other kids of color have similar experience of never having black friends, being shunned by other Latinos, and such things like that. So, sometimes that explains how students of color seem to, in the words of white students, "self-segregate."
I don't intend to make any generalizations, but this was the experience of many of the students of color that I interacted with in college and graduate school. I had some of that same experience, but I ended up joining an NPC group for several reasons.
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