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Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel
I never really had any experience with SigEp before the Balanced Man program, but the non-balanced man chapters seem to fit into the reputation pretty well too in my experience, so probably so.
EX and SAE are both generally very good, but they don't necessarily have a national reputation or stereotype. If I had to say one for them I guess SAE is a kind of southern chapter, like KA light. EX is a lot of times kind of the "good boys" maybe. But they are certainly not as firm stereotypes as the others have and no, I don't think every IFC chapter has a stereotype.
And no, to the best of my knowledge I don't know of a NPC sorority that tries to cultivate a reputation or stereotype. A few have reputations that have caught on to some degree, but they are negative stereotypes that their nationals are clearly not trying to build.
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Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I can see I was wrong to assert that no IFC groups had national reputations or images.
I agree about SAE in the South where they do seem to mentally go with KA somehow but they don't seem as limited to a Southern identity nationally. I think they have some elite chapters all over, but I may be wrong. I think KA's elite chapters are all typically Southern chapters. (ETA: but I have no idea how the KAs are in Wyoming. I have no idea why I'd pretend to.)
It is hard to talk about without lapsing into groups have have generally good reputation, without having the same kind of good reputation. This is going to be kind of a stupid example, but with say EX, on campuses where "good" groups are thought of as old south-y and elitist, they may have a lot of chapters that seem that way; on campuses where "good" chapters are athletic party guys, they are athletic party guys; on campuses where good chapters have emo haircuts, . . .
So if you were doing national tiers, they might be really strong, but that doesn't mean they have one national image or reputation other than being pretty reliably well-thought of.
Contrast it with KA (Order, I mean of course) who are always regarded as Southern, even on a campus where Southern might equal redneck, rather than elite. They are still pretty solid if we tried to do national tiers, I think, because they are so strong in the South, but it's a different kind of good than Sigma Chi.
I think the NPCs are all a female version of the Sigma Chi model or want to be. Nationally, they are just thought of as good if they are, but not aspiring to be thought of nationally as a certain kind of good. Spun as positively as it can, I think the idea is that the GLO's ideals unite the group and attract the best women, no matter what image those best women have.
ETA: which is not to say NPCs are all successful at it or that any of them wouldn't be happy to be thought of as old money, philanthropically minded, morally sound, fun-loving beautiful debutantes if that reputation is going to be claimed by one group.