Well HELLO.... obviously US News and World Report's rankings are much more ELITE and PRESTIGIOUS! Duh.

There is eliteness even among the ranking groups!

Do you rank your friends into tiers too? What about your kids?

Denise

hahahahha

I don't think you're top tier enough to get an answer to your question ;)

I just pledged a sorority this semester (am currently a 'new member' and we're picking bigs this week!!! super excited) and I'm a junoir. Well, I did a program in high school that allowed me to take college classes, so I've been in college for 5 years now, although I'm only a few months shy of 21, and I have enough credits to be considered a senoir. I had no problem going through it, although I am a legacy so I think they gave me little extra consideration.

Basically, one person told me that going through it later in college is sometimes better because you don't get burnt out. Like girls who join in their first semester are burnt out by senoir year and I can see why becuase it is rather intensive and there are a lot of older girls in my chapter that don't come around as much and that might be why.

The only thing I've found a problem with is that I almost can't connect with most of my pledge class because they're mostly freshman and all they care about is drinking, partying, and guys, while I've been in college for sometime and am over that initial "omg!! no parents and beer everywhere" phase, and I care more about my life and future plans, you know, boring adult stuff.

There's no harm in going through recruitment and checking it out. Depending on your school you might be able to go through some sort of recruitment this spring still. I'm glad I didn't do it earlier in my college career because the me 2 years ago wouldn't have liked it. Unfortunately, there are always some snobby stuck up girls in sororities, and there are some in mine that have the attitude that upperclassmen shouldn't pledge, but I think most girls would welcome you very much and look very positively towards you and look past the fact of how old you are.

Good Luck!!!

cant see it happening at a top tier southern chapter....but that is just me.

Are you married to alum?

yeah I agree with you on that. i'm in the north and greek life isn't really highly competitive here at my school, so it just kinda depends.

No, furthermore, why my other post got deleted is beyond me. A senior that wanted to pledge is ridiculous. Absolutely a joke. He would get laughed out of any respectable top tier southern fraternity. I would be embarassed for him.

And if a mod responds to this, Spare Me in posting the TOS for me to see.

You must be right. What would the state of Oklahoma know about petroleum? I mean, I'm probably the only person in this state who works in that industry.

hahah...saetex shut her up. gosh, its not like the Mid Continental Oil Field isnt the most productive in the country....(allthough Alaska will be once drilling begins there.)

Did I say anything about Texas? Obviously Texas and Alaska are major hydrocarbon states too, but the comment was directed at OU and OSU.

OU's petroleum engineering school is a Top Five, and OSU's is quality too. Boone Pickens, a billionaire that founded one of the most successful Oil and Gas companies in the country, funds their program.

UT
OU
Stanford
U of Tulsa

are the tops, among a couple others

Are you sure you aren't even maybe related to alum? You spout the same horse sh*t that she does. She is a dinosaur who believes in a tiered system too. Of course she won't even respond to my posts b/c my group was formed in the 20TH CENTURY so we don't even hit the bottom rung of her tier system.

;)

Denise

actually, here is the list, which I also had my uncle confirm, who is in a top oil and gas company in texas.

#1 University of Texas- Austin
#2 Texas A&M - College Station
#3 University of Tulsa
#4 LSU - Baton Rouge
#5 University of Oklahoma

I thought you were being sarcastic....how could you think that Oklahoma knows nothing about oil and gas exploration?

sorry, i dont really know anything about your "group". tiers are pevalent in the south. southern greek systems are the best in the country

You are going to get laughed out of law school. You cannot cite your uncle on exams.

Dammit, why didn't anybody tell me you can't cite your uncle on an exam before today? I cited my uncle on the WV bar exam that I took yesterday!!!!! (wonder how the bluebook citation for that would look?)

Ah, but don't top tier fraternity men at top tier schools make their own laws? I'm sure his uncle was old row and that should be good enough for anyone.

Oh, wait. The real world doesn't work that way anymore, if it ever did.

123 Big Douche 246 (Idiot 2006).

thank god you greek chatters could let me know that you cant cite interviews. Ill be sure to e-mail the APA and MLA to let them know that they should just take those out. Now how accurate his uncle is, is debateable. If hes an expert in the field it stands, otherwise it doesnt, but the fact of the matter is you cant disregard his comments just becuase its his uncle. you might have to go on his uncles expertise, not your own biases against us.

Yeah, that old row, "know who my father is" stuff doesn't work in the real world. However, there are probably a couple hundred congressmen, Fortune 500 execs, and our own President Bush who might disagree with you.

I'd possibly agree with you if I thought for a second any of these posters were from families at the Bush level of wealth and power. The more they try to throw their weight around, the less plausible anything they say seems.

Your daddies could all be bag boys at your local Piggly Wiggly for all we know.

And for all I know you could be a 47 year old man trying to seduce people on greek chat like you see on tv, but do i really think that...no. All i acutally assume is that youre a kd, youre name is danielle, kd probably sucks where you go to school, and you probably like to date GDIs (or fraternity guys that might as well be GDIs). But hey, for all I know what I jsut stated was false.

it's not just them that believe in a tiered system. LIFE is all about tiers, haven't you realized that by now? my top tier sorority aside, it is my top tier undergrad and the fact that i am attending a top tier graduate school next year and will certainly attend a top tier law school in the future that is going to ensure my success. there is no possible way that you can say that someone who goes to a bottom tier school - or even a school at the bottom of the first tier - can be anywhere NEAR as professionally successful as someone attending an ivy. someone from a crappy school that succeeds (and yes, that's what bottom tier schools are to those of us who bust our asses to work hard and get good grades and go to good schools) is the exception, NOT the rule.

-edited for a typo

Hi, alum, are you having fun posting under your new name?

G-d I love tier obsession.

This just made my day.

I'm on the edge of my seat, waiting for more links to the US News & World Report rankings!!!

OMGWTFBBQTIERS!!!!

is it that impossible to believe that anyone else reads some of the crap on this board and feels like commenting on it? i don't know who alum is, or who anyone is - and i'm sure your moderators can verify that by looking at my ip address.

Crack is cheap. I make TOO MUCH MONEY to ever smoke crack. It's in the bottom tier of drugs.

-There's never a bad time to quote Whitney Houston.

Tiers arent a bad thing, jsut an organizational tool...But then again I doubt many of you low tier people would be happy to be oouted as lower tier.

Dude, i'll out myself right now as a low tier person. I went to the worst school in the country. I can't believe I was hired by people and work with people on a daily basis who went to top tier schools.

i find it very interesting that none of you have even bothered to respond in an educated manner to my post. i am actually looking forward to reading a coherent response from ONE OF YOU that proves me wrong. however, i guess there really is no way to explain that you can go to state u and be more successful than i am, so have fun making stupid "comebacks".

I concur. Great minds think alike.

I want to know what school she goes to that's so "top tier" . . . given that the last time I checked, there are about two schools in the entire South that would fall into the "top tier" ranking in terms of prestige. ;)

I cant believe you stay employed with over 5000 posts. Seriously, who has that much time.

Yes, because it's not like I've been a member for three years or ever post when i'm not at work.

nice wink, sugar and spice. you've really caught me now.

maybe you should read my post again. did i ever say i that i went to school in the south? nope, don't think so. although i did apply (and was accepted by) four southern schools that i would consider very prestigious (uva, chapel hill, vanderbilt, and emory), so maybe you should check your prestigious list. my school is actually in the midwest and has been ranked somewhere in the top 12 by us news and world report for at least the last five or so years. happy now?

Since there are only two prestigious schools in the South, might I ask which ones you are referring to?