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I'll be honest and say that, as an Alumna, when I meet a woman who is Greek, the first thing I think is, "Cool. She must have done some philanthropy and learned how to get along with other people. She's probably a team-player!" Never do I think, "Oh wow, she is part of the (ugly, fat, smart, stupid, skinny, popular, etc.) house."
Once you become an Alumna, people don't even care whether or not your chapter was a "top-tier" chapter or not. In fact, I find it funny that these websites exist because if you check out other schools (not that I am advocating even going on this stupid site) you'll see that tiers change from school to school. XYZ may be #1 at Small School USA but, that same organization may be the "fat girl" sorority at Big Campus USA. Tiers change from chapter-to-chapter, school-to-school and year-to-year.
Your sorority membership is what you make of it. If you end up joining what your friends perceived to be the "lower-tier" house on campus, you may end up helping that chapter thrive and grow. You may even get the opportunity to hold an office position and turn things around. I had some friends in college who received bids to the "top-tier" chapters and ended up quitting. I then had friends who received bids to the "bottomr-tier" chapters and turned those bids down-only to complain that they wish they would have given Greek life a chance, regardless of the "rank" of the sorority for which they received a bid. If you don't get beyond the ranking of the sorority, you may miss out on something VERY VALUABLE...sisterhood!
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