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Indiana University definitly has a tier system.
An interesting thing that I have noticed about this phenomena is where people place themeselves.
Houses at the bottom of the food chain will claim to be a "middle house" while the houses that are in the middle will claim to be a "top house".
None of the bottom houses will say "I belong to a bottom house" and of course the houses that are on top rarely talk about social tiers since they dont really need to. In fact, on average, they tend to be the most laid back about "social tiers". Its all of the crazy middle and bottom tier houses stepping on top of eachother, trying to improve their reputation that cause the anomosity. (was that a runon sentence?)
Our school has so many fraternity and sororities that the hard corps "tier disciples" will even go so far as to break up houses into smaller tiers.
For exampled...."XYZ" sorority isnt a bad sorority, but they're only a lower-middle house so none of the better houses will pair with them" or "I wanted to be in a top fraternity, but I joined ABC...they're not bad...they're at the bottom of the top tier".
I had two sorority friends that loved to talk greek, so I was always kept abreast of the latest social developments.
One thing I positive thing I will say about IU is that it is not impossible to improve your fraternity or sororities social reputation.
It can be tough, especially for sororities, but in my last 2 or 3 years there, I saw 2 or 3 fraternities literally rise from the very bottom to the top class with lots of hard work in recruitment and campus involvement. And when I look at it, their formula was so simple, I'm amazed that a lot of other groups dont try it!
AOII's colonization went very well, as did Phi Sigma Kappa's.
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