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Originally Posted by irishpipes
Berkeley and U of Washington have a lot of history with very old chapters and several of them. Arizona has a decent amount of chapters, as does UCLA and Washington State. Pepperdine seems to have a thriving young system.
I'm not from that part of the country, but from the posts we see on these boards, the Greek scene out there faces a lot of competition from other organizations and other distractions (great weather, sports, etc). There seems to be a lot of anti-Greek sentiment in that part of the counrty as well. Of course that's a gross generalization, but still.
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Having been Greek at a West Coast school, I can say that some of these comments are true. While the Greek system is large at UW, it's a fairly small percentage of the student body that's Greek, and there are definite "Greek-haters". That said, UW also has the largest Greek system on the West Coast (16 NPC sororities and 31 NIC fraternities, plus all of the NPHC chapters and several other types of Greek organizations) with a lot of very strong members. However, from what I've read on GC, USC has more members in their chapters (at least in NPC) and I believe has a more "southern-style" type of recruitment than other West Coast greek systems.
ETA: not sure if that what was you were looking for, but thought I would offer some info on my alma mater.
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