Highest Percentage of Greeks

[exlurker]

U.S. News & World Report has two helpful little lists of the U.S. colleges/universities with the highest percentage of students in sororities and in fraternities. The current lists are

(sororities):
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/col...orit_brief.php


(fraternities)

[PhiPsiRuss]

Here's the link for fraternities: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/col...frat_brief.php

I question those numbers. I'd like to read about the methodology used to get those statistics.

Also, what's the deal with Trinity Baptist College? 100%? That sounds like either an error, or an environment that is coerced.

[MissOh2Cute]

Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
Also, what's the deal with Trinity Baptist College? 100%? That sounds like either an error, or an environment that is coerced.

I think it's something different than like local, NPC, IFC, NPHC groups....I went to their site and they didn't have a link at all for Greek Life, at least I didn't see one. Same with Ohio Valley....their groups are like Kappa, Theta, Sigma, etc. I think they are Bible Study/Social type groups OR locals....I'm not sure. It wasn't until I went to DePauw's website that I saw groups I recognized....Alpha Phi, DG, Pi Phi, etc.

[queequek]

Trinity Baptist College ... 100% ?

[alphaalpha]

I can't really comment about Trinity Baptist college, but the second to the last, Randolph-Macon College does NOT have sororities. Its an all girl school and the school got rid of their sororities quite, as in over 50 years ago, a while ago and so i REALLY dont understand how they can have 40% of sorority members. HUMM maybe there is something wrong with the poll??

[CarolinaCutie]

There is more than one Randolph-Macon college.

[DaffyKD]

Originally posted by alphaalpha
I can't really comment about Trinity Baptist college, but the second to the last, Randolph-Macon College does NOT have sororities. Its an all girl school and the school got rid of their sororities quite, as in over 50 years ago, a while ago and so i REALLY dont understand how they can have 40% of sorority members. HUMM maybe there is something wrong with the poll??

According to the website for Randolph-Macon, http://www.rmc.edu/ they are a co-educational institutition. They have 4 sororities---AGD, DZ, KAT & Phi Mu. Their frats are: Kappa Sigma, Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Delta Theta, SAE, and Theta Chi.

Daffymom

[PhoenixAzul]

Yay Bethany!

[HPU PIKE]

Same with Ohio Valley....their groups are like Kappa, Theta, Sigma, etc. I think they are Bible Study/Social type groups OR locals....I'm not sure.

I live about 10 min. from OVC. You're right, their "Greek" organizations aren't typical Fraternities and Sororities. From what I know, they are co-ed, and are more like social clubs. Not sure if these clubs validate the #2 spot on the list of colleges with the most percentage of students involved in Greek Life.

[Xylochick216]

Originally posted by alphaalpha
I can't really comment about Trinity Baptist college, but the second to the last, Randolph-Macon College does NOT have sororities. Its an all girl school and the school got rid of their sororities quite, as in over 50 years ago, a while ago and so i REALLY dont understand how they can have 40% of sorority members. HUMM maybe there is something wrong with the poll??

Randolph-Macon Women's College is here in Lynchburg. They used to have Greek Life, but don't any more.

Randolph-Macon College is in Ashland (near Richmond, 2 hours away). It is co-ed.

Here is a thread that discussed this earlier

[MissOh2Cute]

Yeah I'm really not too sure I like this poll. I think there are other schools more "deserving" well maybe deserving isn't the right word....but more focused on actual Greek Life that have high percentages as well. Does anyone by any chance know Longwood University's (VA) percentage? I know they have an extremely high percentage of Greeks, particularly helped out by 4 chapters being founded there.

[DeltAlum]

Interesting to me that only one institution (Central State of Ohio) on each list is a state supported school.

[Xylochick216]

Originally posted by MissOh2Cute
Yeah I'm really not too sure I like this poll. I think there are other schools more "deserving" well maybe deserving isn't the right word....but more focused on actual Greek Life that have high percentages as well. Does anyone by any chance know Longwood University's (VA) percentage? I know they have an extremely high percentage of Greeks, particularly helped out by 4 chapters being founded there.

A lot of schools we would think of as having a huge Greek system DO have lots of people in them, just not large percentages. Since this study is based solely on percentages, there are some schools that were surprising.

[exlurker]

Originally posted by MissOh2Cute
. . . . Does anyone by any chance know Longwood University's (VA) percentage? I know they have an extremely high percentage of Greeks, particularly helped out by 4 chapters being founded there.

For what it's worth, the 2005 edition of U.s. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges states the following for Longwood:

"14% of students in fraternities, 19% in sororities."

The figures in the 2004 edition are:
"18% of students in fraternities, 20% in sororities."

For 2005 they report 3,565 full time undergrads, 34% male, 66% female.
For 2004 those figures were 3,508, with the same 34% / 66% male / female split.

[MissOh2Cute]

why thank you exlurker!! I guess the fact that it's a smaller school threw me off in thinking the percentage would be higher.....wow knowing those statistics now I couldn't imagine being at a school as high as 40%. Must be awesome....at ODU we have MAYBE 3-4% Greek.

Do higher percentages usually mean the school supports Greek Life more?