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As an undergraduate I found the general opinion among Greeks and GDIs alike was that cheerleaders were window dressing for the real teams. They tended to have exaggerated opinions of their place in the hierarchy of campus life and were, with few exceptions, the overly pretty types who spent so much time on their looks that it was painfully obvious that they had missed most of the intellectual experience of a university education.
During Law School they were irrelevent and those very few who made it into Law School quickly learned that their having been cheerleaders counted for less than nothing and reflected less than positively on their perceived intellectual capabilities.
The exceptions were great but very few in number.
Sorrority members tended to be of two basic types. The overly gushy little girl types who talked a great deal about hearts, flowers, and sisterhood, and the women who showed a mature appreciation of sisterhood and the standards and ideals upon which their organizations were founded without being painful about it. These latter ones were the campus leaders who went on to grad school, law or medical school, or got real jobs upon graduation.
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