What are the elite sororities?

[33girl]

Originally posted by ADPi-EE
I'm still confused about the traditional definition of "elite". I had thought that the word "elite" was used to describe the groups that started the NPC.....but actually I had never even heard of the term "elite" until I read these posts so I really have no idea.

If "elite" means having the strongest nationals, what is this based on? Is it number of total initiates?...number of living initiates?....number of total chapters?...number of active chapters? number of alumnae groups? sorority age? leadership in NPC?

The word "elite" has been stretched out more than Roseanne Barr's underwear at this point, so I would just say that the strongest national is the one that has the lowest percentage of closed chapters. If you open 100 and close 40, you are doing something wrong. But if you open 60 and close 10, even though you may have less chapters, you have less of a "failure" rate.

That's just my 2.5 cents.