Princeton Review: Top 20 Fraternity/Sorority Scenes
13 years ago

  1. Vanderbilt University – Nashville, TN
  2. Transylvania University – Lexington, KY
  3. University of Mississippi – Oxford, MS
  4. Sewanee, The University of the South – Sewanee, TN
  5. Wake Forest University – Winston-Salem, NC
  6. DePauw University – Greencastle, IN
  7. Lehigh University – Bethlehem, PA
  8. Texas Christian University – Fort Worth, TX
  9. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Champaign, IL
  10. University of Georgia – Athens, GA
  11. Ohio University – Athens, OH
  12. Pennsylvania State University – University Park, Pennsylvania
  13. University of Iowa – Iowa City, IA
  14. Arizona State University – Metro Phoenix, AZ
  15. Florida State University – Tallahassee, FL
  16. Birmingham-Southern College – Birmingham, AL
  17. Wofford College – Spartanburg, SC
  18. Bucknell University – Lewisburg, PA
  19. Albion College – Albion, MI
  20. University of South Carolina – Columbia, SC
    2. PhiSexySexy

      tell me about it… sure their greek system has been in existence for more than 130 years, and they have something like 35% of their students in greek life but they have like 1600 people and its Albion, MI- there is nothing else to do

      13 years ago at 2:47 pm
    4. All Black Everything

      To be more accurate, Albion is closer to 45-50% greek. Yes, its a small school, sorry I’m not sorry that your schools lost to one 1600 students.

      13 years ago at 3:06 pm
    6. AmericanFratty

      transylvania doesn’t even have houses. they just live in dorms. this list is dumb as fuck

      13 years ago at 3:28 pm
    7. Frat_Trick

      1/2 of campus is greek. Private Liberal Arts school. 2nd most expensive school in the state (which makes it about 3 times as much as any SEC school). 130 year old greek system. And ya there’s nothing else to do but frat really really hard… but do you really need anything else? Frat on Albion.

      13 years ago at 3:30 pm
    9. PhiMu10

      I’m an Albion alumnae and I was quite surprised. I’m not complaining. Go Brits!

      13 years ago at 3:52 pm
    10. PTG Beauregard

      Go Brits? What the fuck is going through your head when you say that? How does that even compute?

      This list is a joke because it doesn’t include W&L. Alpha chapters of KA, Sigma Nu, and ATO. 80-90% Greek, and all with fucking huge houses.

      13 years ago at 6:23 pm
    14. PKPfratstar

      I don’t even go to W&L and know they should be on the list hands down before a place with no houses. The stories I have heard from people attending parties their is all the same, they rocked, and I’m not just talking about from one generation, but many. There are several schools on this list that must be jokes. This list is null and void in my eyes and if you don’t agree keep your mouth shut, I don’t give a fuck.

      13 years ago at 8:42 pm
    15. TexLex

      W&L used to top the Princeton Review lists for Fraternity Scene and Party School (as well as various academic and conservative lists) but the President had the university removed from all of the PR rankings a few years ago.

      13 years ago at 9:27 pm
    17. PicksMcGhee

      Albion may have a high percentage, but every Big 10, SEC, or major conference school still has more students in their Greek system than the whole ‘college’ combined.

      13 years ago at 8:27 am
    18. Xi_Girl

      Clearly you haven’t spent a weekend at Albion. Yall don’t know what you’re talking about. Albion parties harder than any other school I’ve visited. Don’t be jealous cuz yalls schools aren’t as fratty as Albion. Sucks to suck. Sorry I’m not sorry. 🙂

      13 years ago at 11:33 am
    19. The Piker

      I’m not sorry that I got into schools that are far better than that shitty school, and chose a Southern research university that boasts a football team, an excellent Greek system, and far better weather than you will ever find in Michigan. Your school sucks, as do most small, nonselective private institutions, and no one is honestly upset that you don’t feel bad for them, because everyone knows that a decision to not apply to Albion is better than the one you made in going there.

      13 years ago at 11:47 am
    21. Xi_Girl

      Yeah, I’d say there’s a little hostility goin’ on there. Piker, keep drink’ your piss warm beer, watching your overly-large school’s football games from your apartment on tv since you couldn’t get tickets for the season, and being just a blip on greek life’s radar, and we’ll keep frattin’ hard at Albion and holding down our Top 20 spot.
      That’s what I thought.

      13 years ago at 12:11 pm
    22. The Piker

      You would be correct. Because I only applied to Nova, UMD, USC, UF, UVA, Pitt, and Clemson. 100% acceptance rate (although none of the schools are particularly hard to get into, save for UVA), and all with better SAT averages than that shithole I just heard of yesterday.

      13 years ago at 12:12 pm
    23. The Piker

      Secondly, we get free tickets to all sporting events, are you can always buy some off a scalper if you aren’t able to get them for a game (which would only ever happen during your freshman year anyway). SEC football or some crappy school in the cold? Being from PA, I hate the fucking cold. Easy choice.

      13 years ago at 12:14 pm
    24. Xi_Girl

      Were we talking about the weather? I thought it was about which school had the better Greek system.
      Albion holds a Top 20 spot, your fancy-schmancy SEC doesn’t. Apparently you’ve got a shitty greek system. I mean, let the results speak for themselves. Thankfully I’m not at your school. So, not my shitty greek system, not my problem.
      Sorry you haven’t been lucky enough to stop by Albion on the weekends.

      13 years ago at 12:18 pm
    26. Xi_Girl

      Alright, well, 19 still beats 20. Don’t knock it ’til ya try it. You could be surprised. A little tiny town in mid-Michigan CAN frat just as hard as a big southern school.

      13 years ago at 12:23 pm
    27. The Piker

      That doesn’t mean its worth going to. Stop pretending people are jealous. If I wanted to go to a private school, I would have chosen Nova, a far better academic choice, which also has Division 1 sports programs, and isn’t in the middle of nowhere. No one is jealous, they just think this list is retarded, because it includes schools that are on here because they filled out surveys on PR’s website that asked about percentage of student body that parties and joins Greek life. Being ranked does not make your school fratty. Anyone at Vandy would admit that their Greek life is not tops in the nation, not even in the SEC. Its schools like yours that has students defend this awful ranking system, because they are so deprived of national attention and reputation that this seems like their best chance to be noticed by the world. By the way, my football team is ranked #8 by ESPN, I’ll take that over a spot on this list any day.

      13 years ago at 12:29 pm
    28. Brahcision maker

      any school that has 50% greek life is a joke. when you take the exclusivity out of the greek system it degrades all greeks nationwide. there is no way 50% of the students are Fraternity/Sorority material so when you boast a number that high, it is very likely that anyone gets a bid, even people who do not deserve one. I hate to say it but The Piker is right on this one.

      13 years ago at 12:35 pm
    29. NorthernFratLife

      50% isn’t non-exclusive when you consider the fact that Greek Life is the only thing to do on campus. The bars here are terrible, so the frat houses turn into the primary party scene.
      As far as letting everyone in, that isn’t the case at all. If anything, having such a popular Greek Life system forces us to be more selective. Houses turn people away more than they bid, it seems.

      13 years ago at 12:45 pm
    30. The Piker

      Sororities and Fraternities provide a lot of activities, parties, and social events on campus. About 40% of students participate in Greek Life. Because so many students are involved in it, greek life at Albion College is nothing like you’ve seen in movies and television shows. Greek life brings philanthropy events and community service opportunities to campus on top of numerous social activities. Greek or not, everyone is welcome at the fraternity parties each weekend. If you are not interested in greek life, there are plenty of other ways to get involved on campus.

      Read more: http://collegeprowler.com/albion-college/greek-life/#ixzz1TzfGYih9

      FaF

      13 years ago at 12:49 pm
    31. NorthernFratLife

      Sounds like a stock Campus Communications review. The strict ‘No Hazing’ policy is a joke.

      13 years ago at 1:17 pm
    32. dubulous

      For Albion being such a small, piece of shit school, they’re sure are a lot of people who’ve heard of it. Must be doing something right.

      13 years ago at 4:02 pm
    34. Fratam K and Soha

      Same with Iowa; by far the worst of the Big Ten.. and the Big Ten, aside from Illinois, isn’t much to brag about

      13 years ago at 8:48 am
    35. greeklifelove1990

      Piker needs to calm down and stop listing off the ‘amazing’ schools that he got into. And stop referring to Villanova as ‘Nova’….you don’t go there. Get over it. Although Albion isn’t the most well-known college it doesn’t mean that they don’t have an amazing greek system! Go brits 🙂

      13 years ago at 9:56 am
    36. The Piker

      Villanova refers to the private high school. I’ve never heard anyone refer to the college as anything but Nova in Eastern Pa.

      13 years ago at 10:58 am
    37. brostock

      I love Xi Girl trying to use this list as evidence of Albion’s frattiness when it’s the list’s credibility itself that’s in question. Sandwich-making time.

      13 years ago at 12:22 pm
    38. greeklifelove1990

      Do you live in Eastern PA or something? You haven’t mentioned that in every comment you’ve left or anything….

      13 years ago at 12:42 pm
    39. Big Flats 1901

      Keep going Piker! You’re only a few comments away from winning this internet argument.

      13 years ago at 7:10 pm
    40. BellagioHouse

      Hey “All Black Everything” you’re from a school so pathetic and small your fraternities have to coordinate their big party weekends so there are enough students to even come. You’re girls aren’t even that good looking, you only have 6 fraternities and sororities- hell, you only have 2 greek honors societies…

      You’re school sucks – don’t even try to say otherwise.

      13 years ago at 6:14 am
    41. BellagioHouse

      Also, now I know why Princeton Review (REVU) has fallen to just $0.19 from the original $11 IPO value just a few years ago…

      13 years ago at 6:21 am
    42. Ragenomics

      I’m from Michigan and I can honestly say both the school and the greek scene at the school are jokes. It is mostly inhabited by dumb poor kids who couldn’t get into University of Michigan or a decent out of state school. Their definition of fratty is hooded sweatshirts with their letters on them.

      13 years ago at 12:47 am
    43. PhiMu10

      @Ragenomics, actually, a school that costs $40k/year probably isn’t filled with poors. Personally, I turned down UofM because I didn’t care for the large school.

      13 years ago at 7:20 pm
    44. TKE11

      For anyone that creates a clever name on a website like this and clearly has all the time in the world to debate this is more of a joke. This will be my only comment.

      13 years ago at 9:26 am
    45. Bronan the Barbarian

      How is W&L not on the list? It has one of the most epic party scenes I’ve seen outside of the big state schools and is close to 85% greek. That’s a great greek system. Hell, I don’t even go there. I just visited our chapter there for the weekend. It was fucking sick.

      13 years ago at 9:11 pm
  3. SAE 1856

    This is merely a list based upon student surveys that displays no true representation of legitimate greek life besides the SEC schools. White Power.

    13 years ago at 2:24 pm
    5. CAptbap

      Finding out you’re a spear chucker yet still continuing to hate porch monkeys FaF

      13 years ago at 5:51 pm
    7. Lone fratStar

      YALL WANNA SEE MY FACE? YALL WANNA SEE MY FACE?!

      SHOW US YOUR FACE BROTHER!

      13 years ago at 3:03 am
    1. FraterdayNightLights

      I hear they go to some dumb shit school that is really easy to get into.

      13 years ago at 2:27 pm
    4. Minnebrota Brophers

      Frattesota, can you show me where in my comment I said Minnesota should be up there with some of these other schools? Frat Czar gets it.

      13 years ago at 8:15 am
    1. Hogarth

      Transy is literally 2 blocks from UK and it all we can do to keep the
      Off our shit. They don’t even have houses, just fraternity/sorority dorm “halls”.

      13 years ago at 4:29 pm
    3. Woah Bro

      Apparently we aren’t frat and can’t party. Clearly the people in charge of this list haven’t ventured down this far south

      13 years ago at 2:46 pm
    8. Puff Fratty

      Tech tries way too hard. All the kids that were wearing Affliction and Ed Hardy in high school now think that they’re FAF at Tech.

      13 years ago at 4:40 pm
    14. LHT 1869

      I was going to apply to Tech, until I saw the application was a Dora the Explorer coloring book. Not coloring inside the lines. TFTC.

      13 years ago at 9:55 am
    1. Frataholic

      There’s always a high Greek percentage in places like that. Clearly the list valued that a lot higher than quality or parties.

      13 years ago at 4:15 pm
    4. Southern pika

      Coming from the guy that’s name is “back woods”.I’m sorry your from Arkansas

      13 years ago at 3:41 pm
    6. carolinahaze

      No Pike is ever FaF – doesn’t matter what region or conference he’s in.

      13 years ago at 4:29 pm
    2. classyandsratty

      Disgusted. A school with only one NPC sorority is NOT FaF….it’s an embarrassment. Please visit their fraternities also. They have all open parties and the majority of the guys wear cargo shorts. It’s gross. I visited and had to leave, I was so appalled.

      13 years ago at 2:40 pm
    4. Rugger

      The University of the South is FaF. Been there for four years and never seen a single pair of cargo shorts. Even the 10% or so of our school that are GDIs dress better than most fraternity members at state schools. YSR.

      13 years ago at 7:02 pm
    5. swntgrs

      Ok Sewanee is NOT a hippie school, it is one of the preppiest schools in the U.S. We have open parties because everybody here is so fratty there is no need to kick anybody out. The girls here may not be in national sororities, but they are classier, prettier, and a hell of a lot more fun than state school srostitutes. And I don’t know what campus you were on but nobody wears cargo shorts. Get the fuck out, Rhodes.

      13 years ago at 10:00 pm
    7. classyandsratty

      CLASSIER? HAHAHA you HAZE. real sororities don’t HAZE. You made one of your girls give head on the stage at SAE. Yes, it’s all funny, but that’s far from classy. You don’t even have PHILANTHROPIES. Nothing about these “sororities” is classy.

      13 years ago at 4:05 pm
    8. John Bell

      A school that is FaF couldn’t give two shits about what sororities are there. It’s called FaF for a reason, brattyandsratty.

      13 years ago at 4:09 pm
  11. brosta del mar 580s

    out of all the fucking schools we have in Texas and they pick TCU? don’t get me wrong TCU is great and all but what the fuck? fucking fuck motherfucking cocksucker assclown fuckjerk balls!

    13 years ago at 2:28 pm
    3. PledgeTrainer

      yeah. for real. TCU doesn’t even have frat caves… They wish they were FaF

      13 years ago at 2:56 pm
    6. sds

      TCU has no houses. Also, they’re the little sisters of the poor. SMU should have taken their place

      13 years ago at 9:48 pm