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I don't think its strictly numbers. From my understanding, The Princeton Review uses student surveys primarily to create their rankings for many categories. For some categories it is obviously going to be based on who answers the questions.

At a higher education institution that I just left they took the rankings somewhat seriously-- but only because it was in things like "Best access to professors" and the "Stone Cold Sober" categories. And I know there that a percentage of the student body was selected to participate in the survey-- I think it may have been from across all classes. No greek life on campus there!

I think the greek rankings must rely highly on what the students said. And I would agree with others that some schools do a great deal to make sure they get listed.

Here is some info from a school press release:
"The Princeton Review, a New York city-based company known for its reputation and admission services surveyed 65,000 students at 331 top schools (less than 10 percent of America’s colleges and universities are selected) who rated their own schools in categories from academics to campus life. At each location, a random sample of students (200 per campus on average) answered 70 questions about their school’s academics, campus life and student body, as well as their own study hours, politics and opinions."