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Originally Posted by ugadawg
Very interesting discussion, much of which I agree with. As to the tier thing, everything tends to be ranked (schools, grad schools, sports teams) some of which is based on performance and a lot on perception. My intital point, which was not clearly made, was that three people on another site, ranked houses. That information was then posted here as an accurate list. And the three that made the list were bashing houses (a low tier activity in my mind). They might be right in the rankings, but I think the guy going through rush should consider the source of the list.
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While I don't condone "bashing houses", you have to admit that at nearly every campus there are houses which are running jokes amongst everyone better than them. To strongly object to tiers and honest observations about houses suggests (as has been mentioned) that someone is in one of these fairly low rated houses and resents the fact that they wound up somewhere other than top-tier.
I didn't go reread the tier thread in question, but it's generally reasonable to assume that most of the posters are somewhere between the top tier and the middle of the second tier. If you aren't looking for a "fratty" house or social events with the top sororities, than no the list may not apply to you.
But again to just say "look at them making fun of bad houses and making these arbitrary tiers, they are ridiculing the lower tier, that's lower tier in itself" only suggests to me that you protest a bit too much and aren't real happy with where others consider your house to fit in to that matrix.