"Tiers" Among Alumnae?

[KillarneyRose]

I put this in the Sorority Recruitment forum instead of Greek Life because it is aimed at a very specific group: Southern NPC Alumnae.

After having read for years about how cutthroat recruitment is in the South and how some girls have been known to pledge a "less selective" sorority at one school and then try to transfer to a school where the sorority is "good", it makes me wonder if this sort of thinking extends into the alumnae world?

Let's say, for example, there's an XYZ alumnae chapter in Sometown, Mississippi and most of the members are from nearby schools. What if the XYZ chapter at Big University was the bee's knees (not too often I get to use that term!), the XYZ chapter at Private College is middle of the road and the XYZ chapter at Huge School has no house and doesn't always make Quota.

Do the members of the alumnae chapter care about that for the most part? Are the chapters cliques within cliques?

I know it is impossible to generalize when there are hundreds of alumnae chapters, but I was just wondering if this sort of thing comes into play to your knowledge?