As someone who doesn't go ton MIT but has been to a few MIT frats and partied there before, MIT greek culture is not at all representative of the wider greek cu

As someone who doesn't go ton MIT but has been to a few MIT frats and partied there before, MIT greek culture is not at all representative of the wider greek culture at American universities. In fact, MIT is an outlier. MIT is very much academics driven. At MIT, taking 6 or more classes (in a technical field) makes you an awesome badass. 50% of MIT is involved in greeks precisely because the greek culture there is very much tied into the wider MIT culture. People who would have been "nerds" at other schools, forgive the crass stereotype, fit right into many MIT frats. Which is an awesome thing for MIT, but doesn't really help your argument.