I know when I went through rush (and YES, it was rush then

), I didn't know D Phi E from ASA from Tri Sigma. And as for "national reputations", didn't know, wasn't thinking about it. When I went to pref, I went to D Phi E, Tri Sigma and a local, and I couldn't have cared less about national or local. I cared about the women I met and how I gelled with the group.
As trisigmaATL said, nobody was putting down the big guns. We smaller national/international sororities just want our props too