[UGAalum94]

OP, everything will unfold for you during rush, from reputations of the group to your own personal sense of connection, and as long as you have secured all the recommendations that you can and spoken with older girls from your high school to let them know you are going through, you probably won't get much out of trying to pick a group in advance.

Even if you could make a short list of the groups you really wanted, if they didn't invite you back, it'd be counter-productive. It's a mutual selection process, but the majority of the selecting is done by the GLOs rather than the PNMs. Even a girl having a perfect rush and getting asked back to every group still has to be asked back before she can decide if she wants to go. What would be the point of deciding you loved XYX before you knew if they loved you?

Make the best impression that you can on everyone you meet, keep as many options open as you can, and then rank the groups you like best from the ones you are invited to pref.

To do anything else basically just allows you to get frustrated and sad about stuff that wasn't in your control to start with.

Macallen25, you're right that there are reputation tiers at UGA. But unless she is one of maybe 100 (it may be less than this) girls out of 1200 total who truly do have their pick of ALL the groups, why limit her enjoyment of the bid she actually gets by prejudicing her before it even starts?

And it probably doesn't surprise you to learn that people in lower reputation tier groups still find their groups worthwhile to be in, so there really is a little bit of truth is the "they are all great in different ways" even if they aren't all first tier by reputation.

And honestly, you think there's much danger that a girl is going to take a bid from a "bottom feeder" group (as I think you once put it to me) instead of a top tier group even if no one tells her before rush which is which?