What GLO is the most known?

[AGDLynn]

For sororities, I'd say Delta Delta Delta or Kappa Kappa Gamma.

[cutie_cat_4ever]

I would say Phi Theta Kappa and Kappa Kappa Gamma

[tunatartare]

Only ones I knew of before coming to college were AEPi and AEPhi.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by AGDLynn

For sororities, I'd say Delta Delta Delta or Kappa Kappa Gamma.

Yes, KKG was mentioned in "Sex and the City" when Charlotte had lunch with her sorority sisters from college.
Also, in Legally Blonde (the book, not the movie), the stepsister who did the shooting was named as being a KKG.

Let's not forget Elle Woods' sorority: DN

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by CutiePie2000

Yes, KKG was mentioned in "Sex and the City" when Charlotte had lunch with her sorority sisters from college.
Also, in Legally Blonde (the book, not the movie), the stepsister who did the shooting was named as being a KKG.

Let's not forget Elle Woods' sorority: DN

There was a book called "Let's Go Play at the Adams" or something like that, which I read just prior to college, and the babysitter was a Kappa Kappa Gamma. It was a horrifying book, BTW.

I also think it's how you grew up. On the street where I grew up, literally everyone who went to college was in a GLO, and strangely, no two people were in the same one. I had heard of (going down the street) KKG, ATO, ASA, TriDelta, Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Theta, ChiO, DTD, Delta Sigma Phi, AXO, KAT, Sigma Chi, Chi Phi, SAE, Theta Chi, TriSigma, Beta Theta Pi, LXA, TKE, APhi, AXD, KA, (and one ADPi!). Pretty awesome, when you consider that there are only 14 houses on the street!

But I agree, Phi Beta Kappa is THE best known, bar none.

[PhrozenGod01]

I'm leaning more towards Delta House just because of one of the greatest movies of all time. Of course I am more have more of a personal bias for the popularity of Alpha Phi Alpha and Phi Beta Kappa, but only did the brothers of Delta Tau Chi teach me the about true meaning of brotherhood...at the age of 12 one night. Delta Tau Chi is not the most important, but I didn't have a clue what Phi Beta Kappa was until I actually did research about greek life. That org never came up amongst my friends or anything.

[CutiePie2000]

Originally Posted by honeychile

There was a book called "Let's Go Play at the Adams" or something like that, which I read just prior to college, and the babysitter was a Kappa Kappa Gamma. It was a horrifying book, BTW.

I read that book...I think I heard about it from the "disturbing books" thread. I vaguely remember the babysitter being a KKG, but yeah, that book was very disturbing.

[tunatartare]

Originally Posted by honeychile

There was a book called "Let's Go Play at the Adams" or something like that, which I read just prior to college, and the babysitter was a Kappa Kappa Gamma. It was a horrifying book, BTW.

I also think it's how you grew up. On the street where I grew up, literally everyone who went to college was in a GLO, and strangely, no two people were in the same one. I had heard of (going down the street) KKG, ATO, ASA, TriDelta, Delta Phi, Phi Kappa Theta, ChiO, DTD, Delta Sigma Phi, AXO, KAT, Sigma Chi, Chi Phi, SAE, Theta Chi, TriSigma, Beta Theta Pi, LXA, TKE, APhi, AXD, KA, (and one ADPi!). Pretty awesome, when you consider that there are only 14 houses on the street!

But I agree, Phi Beta Kappa is THE best known, bar none.

Where I grew up and in my youth group especially, if you wanted to go Greek, your choices were only AEPhi or SDT. AEPi or ZBT if you're a guy. Myself and one other friend from my youth group one year went against that mold, and 5 years later, the rabbis and the advisors are all still talking about it.

[FAB*SpiceySpice]

Before going to college and becoming Greek myself, the only GLOs I had heard of were Phi Beta Kappa (my dad is one), Beta Theta Pi (one of my best friends from high school was a year older than me and the first of my friends to go greek, so that's how I heard of them), and Tri Delt. Other than that, I had heard nothing, but that's not surprising considering I grew up in Omaha, NE. Not exactly a hotbed of greek activity.

I would have to agree with others though who've said that Phi Beta Kappa is the most well-known nationally.

[Tom Earp]

While some keep mentioning Phi Beta Kappa, which started as the earliest known Greek named Society, they changed to an Honor Organization later.

If you now consider the current Social GLOs, I am sure a lot has to do with the region, ethnic background, and school one would be from or attend.

I became very familiar with the Male GLOs in starting a local Fraternity and which I would try to affiliate with. In the middle 60's, there was little expansion except by two. LXA and TKE were the majors and the Union Triad were the least for expansion as they are today.

Probably the best known Fraternity was SX because of the Song "The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi" and Chester Gould the penner of 'Dick Tracy" who would slip in something with SX in the cartoon that he did.

I am sure that African-Americans new little about Caucasion Fraternities as they were going to HBC and vice versa as the two ethnic groups rarely crossed paths untill now.

Actually is there a true answer, maybe not.

[reverie]

I think what's interesting is how people probably think fake sororities and fraternities are actual national organizations (although a lot of them do have locals, but those are usually coincidental).

I'm sure lots of younger girls now know of Delta Nu from Legally Blonde. (The second one mentioned Kappa, but I'm not sure how memorable the quota was for non-Greeks.)

[NinjaPoodle]

Phi Beta Kappa. Period.

[7thSonofOsiris]

You are 150% correct. Yes, hell yeah, A PHI A is the most widespread, most celebrated and most service driven BGLO/Fraternity in the world. It's chilly at the top, but somebody's got to do it.

[AXCasey]

Well, I'd never heard of Phi Beta Kappa until today...lol
Before I went to college the only sorority I had heard of was ADPi (my grandma is a sister) and I had heard of Kappa Alpha (my great uncle).

I'd have to agree with everyone else who pointed out that it's impossible to know what GLO is most widely known...Sigma Chi or Tri Delt might be a good bet though.

Originally Posted by AXCasey

Well, I'd never heard of Phi Beta Kappa until today...lol
Before I went to college the only sorority I had heard of was ADPi (my grandma was a member) and I had heard of Kappa Alpha (my great uncle).

I assumed that Phi Beta Kappa would be listed in each organization's New Member Education manual since they were the first Greek letter society.

I know that there was a blurb on Phi Beta Kappa in mine.