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Originally posted by Rudey
1) There are very few schools without grade inflation, and those are never the lower tiered schools.
2) It's not about being an academic honor society. Academics are not the only thing that separate tier 1 schools from the rest. The list of schools PBK is irrelevant.
3) A fraternity/sorority is exclusive and elitist by its nature. I want the best people as my brothers. You can choose to have whomever you want I guess too.
-Rudey
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So what exactly is it about students at Tier I schools that makes them so superior for fraternities/sororities? What qualities do you perceive them as having that make them "the best people"?
From what I found on answers.com, this is how the tiers are determined:
* Peer assessment: a survey of the institution's reputation among presidents, provosts, and deans of admission of other institutions
* Retention: six-year graduation rate and first-year student retention rate
* Student selectivity: standardized test scores of admitted students, proportion of admitted students in upper percentiles of their high-school class, and proportion of applicants accepted
* Faculty resources: average class size, faculty salary, faculty degree level, student-faculty ratio, and proportion of full-time faculty
* Financial resources: per-student spending
* Graduation rate performance: difference between expected and actual graduation rate
* Alumni giving rate
So as far as I can tell, you are saying it should be based on academic selectivity, and looking at this, class as well (per-student spending, alumni giving rate)?
Examples of a few (randomly selected) schools from Tiers I, II, III, and IV from another website (
http://www.go4ivy.com/rankings.asp):
Tier I: Cal Tech, Emory, Washington St Louis
Tier II: Bates, Georgetown, Notre Dame
Tier III: Case WR, Tulane, UVA
Tier IV: GWU, UNC Chapel Hill, West Point
In response to your number 3 - exactly. Different fraternities and sororities can choose whoever they want for their organizations, and still call themselves fraternities and sororities. This might shock and horrify you, but not all fraternities and sororities are "exclusive and elitist by nature," nor do they all want to be.
Maybe myself and some of my OPhiA sisters wouldn't be people you would like to have in your ideal GLO world, but I assure you that we have all learned a lot from our sisterhood together.
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