The August 21 - 28 issue of Newsweek has, as part of the Newsweek - Kaplan college information, an article on 25 "new Ivies," selective schools that the article says have great academics, etc.
See:
http://www.msnbc.com/id/14325172/
(If the link takes you to MSNBC, then click on their link to Newsweek. In Newsweek's list of contents, you can look for the article title "America's 25 Elite New 'Ivies.' ")
Interestingly, I think at least 15 of the 25 have chapters of national fraternities and / or sororities. (I think a couple have national fraternities, but local sororities or the equivalent.)
The 15 that I believe have national Greek chapters are
Carnegie Mellon
Colgate
Davidson College (fraternities, and "eating houses" for women)
Emory
Kenyon College (national fraternities and local sororities)
U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor
NYU
U. of North Carolina - Chapel HIll
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ("RPI")
U. of Rochester
Tufts
UCLA
Vanderbilt
U. of Virginia
Washington U. - St. Louis
The others on the list, which I don't think have national Greek life (and some very probably never will) are
Boston College
Bowdoin College
Claremont Colleges (Harvey Mudd and Pomona)
Colby
Macalester
Notre Dame
Olin College of Engineering
Reed College
Rice
Skidmore College
The schools on this Newsweek-Kaplan list might get a boost in applications from the publicity. As far as Greek life goes, it's probably stronger at some of the schools than it is at others. (How's that for waffling?)
Current students and graduates of these schools might want to share their thoughts.
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