"Popular" letters

[Peaches-n-Cream]

When I was in school, there were lots of Alphas, Phis, Sigmas, and Taus.

Sororities:
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Alpha Phi
Alpha Xi Delta
Delta Phi Epsilon
Delta Tau (local)
Phi Sigma Sigma
Sigma Delta Tau

Fraternities:
* Alpha Epsilon Pi
* Alpha Sigma Phi
* Beta Theta Pi
* Chi Phi
* Delta Omega Phi (local-closed)
* Pi Lambda Phi
* Sigma Alpha Epsilon
* Sigma Alpha Mu
* Sigma Phi Epsilon
* Sigma Nu
* Tau Alpha Upsilon (local)
* Tau Epsilon Phi
* Tau Kappa Epsilon
* Zeta Beta Tau

It is interesting. Many of these fraternities have closed and new ones have opened. Only one sorority (the local) has closed over the years.

[AchtungBaby80]

Believe it or not, I was just thinking about this same thing recently! Delta and Alpha seem to be very popular where I went to school.

As for rarely-used letters, I'm in an honor society called Phi Upsilon Omicron...try saying that three times fast!

[MysticCat]

Originally posted by AlphaFrog
....you're just lucky I happen to like Sinfonians!

Ahhhh! I knew that your posts revealed a certain wisdom and discernment.

[AOII_Luv]

This is the breakdown at Indiana University

Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Alpha Gamma Delta
Alpha Omicron Pi
Alpha Phi
Alpha Xi Delta
Chi Omega
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Delta Zeta
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Delta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Phi Mu
Pi Beta Phi
Sigma Delta Tau
Zeta Tau Alpha

Acacia
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Alpha Tau Omega
Alpha Sigma Phi
Chi Phi
Delta Tau Delta
Delta Upsilon
Delta Kappa Epsilon
Kappa Sigma
Kappa Delta Rho
Lambda Chi Alpha
Phi Delta Theta
Phi Gamma Delta
Phi Kappa Psi
Phi Sigma Kappa
Pi Kappa Phi
Sigma Alpha Mu
Sigma Chi
Sigma Pi
Tau Kappa Epsilon
Zeta Beta Tau


It seems to me that Alpha, Delta, Phi, and Kappa are the most common on this campus.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

You seem to have a lot of Sigmas at Indiana U. Actually, you have a lot of everything there since greeklife is so huge.

[Jill1228]

I guess because Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, it will have the most usage

[RedRoseSAI]

Originally posted by astroAPhi
Gamma Phi Beta (by the way... the only other Beta I can think of is Beta Theta Pi)

How about Pi Beta Phi?

As for seldom used Iota, the only national orgs I know of are Sigma Alpha Iota and Iota Phi Theta. I can't think of any that use Eta, though.

[nyrdrms]

Phi is the most common letter at CNU

Alpha Phi
Alpha Phi Omega
Gamma Phi Beta
Pi Kappa Phi
Pi Lambda Phi
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Phi Mu

and then we have
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Delta Sigma Theta

we used to have
Zeta Phi Beta
Sigma Pi
Sigma Tau Gamma
Phi Beta Sigma

[BSP_Nicole]

Originally posted by astroAPhi
Gamma Phi Beta (by the way... the only other Beta I can think of is Beta Theta Pi)

Also, what about Beta Sigma Phi? (Don't forget about us! )

[PrincessHeather]

We have a lot of Phi usage at my school. (we have 11 GLO @CSU Stanislaus)

Sororities:
Phi Sigma Sigma
Phi Lambda Rho-local
Delta Phi Gamma-local
Phi Gamma Theta-local

Fraternities:
Phi Mu Alpha
Phi Delta Theta

Also what is interesting at my school is the more uncommon letters are more commonly used with our locals.

letters used by our locals:

Upsilon Kappa Delta
Nu Alpha Kappa
Phi Lambda Rho

also we have Alpha Xi Delta which is uncommon too.

Another thing that is common on our campus is all of our GLO have 3 letters except for one. (Theta Chi) I've always thought that was kinda neat.

*Edited because I can't spell Upsilon

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Originally posted by BSP_Nicole
Also, what about Beta Sigma Phi? (Don't forget about us! )

Zeta Beta Tau

[OrigamiTulip]

Phi Beta Sigma and Zeta Phi Beta, too.

[aephi alum]

We have a tie between Alpha and Phi... 13 occurrences each. Lots of Deltas and Kappas in there too.

Fraternities
Alpha Delta Phi
Alpha Epsilon Pi
Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Tau Omega
Beta Theta Pi
Chi Phi
Delta Kappa Epsilon
Delta Tau Delta
Delta Upsilon
Kappa Alpha Psi
Kappa Sigma
Lambda Chi Alpha
Nu Delta
Phi Beta Epsilon
Phi Delta Theta
Phi Kappa Sigma
Phi Kappa Theta
Phi Sigma Kappa
Pi Lambda Phi
Sigma Chi
Sigma Nu
Sigma Phi Epsilon
Tau Epsilon Phi
Theta Chi
Theta Delta Chi
Theta Xi
Zeta Beta Tau
Zeta Psi

Sorority
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Epsilon Phi
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Alpha Phi Sorority
Kappa Alpha Theta
Sigma Kappa

[AlphaFrog]

OK this is totally turning into a roll call thread...

Just thought I'd point that out!

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by AlphaFrog
OK this is totally turning into a roll call thread...
Just thought I'd point that out!

It totally is! And no one has answered my other question which was..............

How many "Tri-somethings" are there?
There's Tri Delta and Tri Sigma (NPC)
There's Tri Alpha and Tri Zeta (I think they're locals - I saw their website somewhere).
There's Tri Kappa (I think it's educational or honor or something) and there's Tri Beta (also something along those lines).
Any others?