I went to a peer school, and I don't think the groups there concern themselves much about intellect per se. It really is taken as something of a given. But someone's style of expressing her intellect...that's another matter. I think members of Group A might say that the members of Group B try to act like airheads to impress boys, and Group B would say that Group A members are uptight and have no idea how to have fun.
Looks are another matter too. On my campus, if you guessed who was going to end up in XYZ based on looks and clothes alone, you'd be right a lot more often than you'd be wrong. I know that this kind of pattern is taken for granted at most schools, but at a lot of MIT-type schools, it cuts very hard against the grain, and frankly it plays a big role in the marginalization of NPC sororities. If even one chapter in the system takes only "hot" girls, that's all the rest of the community needs to see to conclude that Greek life is just middle school cliques writ large.
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