Welcome to GC, Cornellie!
My sister is a Kappa from Cornell and she had a fantastic time there (well, as fantastic as a pre-med student at an Ivy can have!
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When she rushed in the early nineties, I remember that she told me it was more competitive than she had expected. Almost like a southern school, as Munchkin said. The Greek system is really strong there, too, from what I understand.