Perception of sororities nationally

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

My group was perceived differently in each of the areas where I lived, and I learned an interesting lesson. It doesn't matter a whole heap after you leave your little bubble world on your own campus.

I agree 100% with this statement.

In my experience, no one cares what "tier" your sorority is/was after college.

I mean, maybe it's just my friends and I, but we don't sit up and re-live our collegiate "glory days" and have discussions about who was "the best." We have lives and would rather talk about the stuff that's going on in our lives right now, not from college 3 years ago. We may talk about some of the crazy times we had with our sisters, but that's it.

If you were to hang out with a group of mid-20's professionals (at least in the areas I'm familiar with) and start going on and on about how "top tier" your sorority was in college, they'd look at you like you had three heads (and were someone who is still living in college-land and needs to grow up).

[AOEforme]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

ISo, in summary, once you graduate, no one cares.

You know, sometimes people just don't care in college. Yes, everyone (at least, who's Greek) knows who the top groups are or who, in their opinion, the top groups are.

But, sorority life is so much more than that. It's what you get to do, the whole experience that matters, right? And that's often what a lot of people want to know. Not what fraternities you mixed with but what your philanthropies did, how you bonded with your sisters, etc.

(FYI, my group just joined our college's Panhellenic recently, so we're not really in the tier system at all, or we automatically start off at the bottom. So, it's not like I'm saying this and in the top house on campus....)