you will be able to tell. have you ever met a person and within a few minutes you felt as if you had known them all your life? you had so much in common with them and the conversation flowed so effortlessly? or you learn about the sorority's philanthropy and immediately your mind begins to whirl 90 to nothing with ideas for fundraisers. you feel comfortable and at home and you can be yourself. these are all things that could happen to let you know that you might have found your home. some girls will know where they belong after the first set of parties, while other girls will spend several hours fretting over which order to place their preferences on the last day.

just know that you will not be friends with everyone in the house, just as you will not be friends with everyone on your dorm floor. you will find your niche within the chapter but it will take time.

FSUZeta, that was beautifully put. Gave me goosebumps remembering when I first felt that "click" with KD :)

OP, I'll give you the same advice for both your college search and your (eventual) sorority search. During your college search you will undoubtedly visit a variety of campuses. Some of them you will like, some of them you won't. But in choosing the "right" college for you, the true test is finding the one that, even though you're not a student yet, feels like home. It should be the college you can see yourself spending the next 4+ years of your life, where you'll meet your best friends and (possibly) your soulmate. When you walk around the campus, you should be able to see yourself eating, sleeping and learning there...in short, you can see it becoming your home.

The same is true for finding the sorority you will fit into. True, you only get to talk to a limited number of women during recruitment. However, as you go through the recruitment process, look around at each of the houses and try to imagine yourself living with those girls, studying with them, crying and laughing with them. It's quite possible the place you feel most at home will be the house full of girls with perfect hair and skin, who look like they've just stepped out of a magazine. Then again it's also possible you'll end up with a house you never dreamed you'd call home until you felt that "click" FSUZeta so beautifully described. But whether you end up in the chapter full of perfectly manicured women or goofy intellectuals (not "nerds" :p) or even somewhere in-between, you need to think about finding a place where you can feel comfortable relaxing in your sweatpants after all the glitz and glitter of recruitment is over. Just relax, be yourself and keep an open mind. Good luck!

What exact question? You want us to tell you where you should end up? You've gotten great advice from FSUZeta and xomanadaxo above. We don't know you, don't know what school you're going to, and don't know the sororities there. So, stop worrying about the "what ifs". You don't even know where you're going to school yet. Get into college, figure out the vibe there and what each group has to offer, and if you have any other questions AFTER that, come back. But otherwise, you're just using up bandwidth with nonsense and vague questions that we honestly can't help you with much more than other posters already have.

Even if the people of GC believed in the tier system, you have to remember one thing. People could list the sororities top to bottom at College A, and it would be true this year. Then they could list the sororities top to bottom at College B, and that would be true for this year. etc, etc.

The bottom line is, you never really know which sorority is going to be most respected from year to year, and at which school. So, the whole hypothosis of this thread is doomed from the beginning - which is why so many people are having fun at your expense.

When you register for recruitment, you and the sororities will get the opportunity to both decide which would be the right home for you.

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Why did I go through all 6 pages of that?