[Rudey]

Originally posted by ariesrising
I still don't get the whole "national reputation" thing. I can't really think of a national reputation for any organization. I mean, I can tell you which ones have more members and more chapters, but that's about it.

I can tell you they're all *different* from each other....but aside from the obvious reasons like colours, mottos, reasons for founding etc, I can't tell you *why* they're different. They all just have different feels to them when I look at their sites and stuff.

What I think of as a sorority reputation as a whole would only come from what I see on GC and what my own local Greek life is like. Does that reflect the real world? Hardly.

It's not like people travel to every chapter of every single NPC sorority to see what everyone is like and can then make a judgement. That's really the only way you could do it - and even then your "results" would be subjective b/c it's *your* opinion. Someone else might see something totally different.

One person may think sorority XYZ is a huge organization filled with beautiful women and they have a lot of money, but are down to earth overall. Someone else may see that and think they're a way too big cookie cutter organization of daddy's girls. It's all about perception and no one is ever going to see the same exact thing, so image is useless.

So you decided to join Alpha Phi as an AI because of the colors and motto?

-Rudey