I would say that, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Penn's Greek systems are closest to "traditional," in terms of the influence they have on campus, housing, and relationship to the administrations. It looks like there are people from Dartmouth and Cornell who can say a lot more, so I will let them do so.
Greek life at Columbia is pretty popular, but is dampened somewhat by the fact that it's in NYC. I believe all of the chapters except one is housed, in houses close to campus that they own themselves. Women's sorority recruitment is during first semester.
Brown has a pretty small Greek system that is given a lot of leeway by the University. All of the NIC/NPC chapters are housed on campus, and have been since the 1950s. Rush is deferred until the Spring semester.
I don't know that much about Yale's Greek Life.
Harvard and Princeton do not officially recognize Greek Life, but there are NIC, NPC, and NPHC chapters at each school that are well-known and thriving.
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