What do you think about ranking Sororities?

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

If I'm the you to whom you are referring, then you are incorrect about what I read and didn't read. Please don't confuse my opinion of what you wrote (which you asked for) with not having read what you wrote.

Should I question whether you read the article, which is titled "Top 10 Best Sororities"? I'm not quite sure what that (rather redundant) title is supposed to mean if it's not "best sororities." Couple that with the lead-in on the value of joining a sorority," then yeah, it pretty much claims to be a list of the best sororities to join.

Chapters and sororities are not the same thing.

But you didn't explain it. If you're going to explain, then give more than "hints" how the list was complied -- actually explain how was it decided which groups made the list and how it was decided what their place in the list would be. And if the only criterion was size, then at least acknowledge that it would have been better to label the list "Largest Sororities" rather than "Best Sororities." (Of course, then there would be another problem -- only NPC sororities are included in the list. If size is the criteria, inclusion of some of the Divine 9 sororities would knock some of the NPC ones of the list.)

It was by size, as GC'ers pointed out almost immediately.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

It was by size, as GC'ers pointed out almost immediately.

I know (except, as I said, selectively, because otherwise Delta Sigma Theta would have been 1 or 2 on the list). But just because we can easily see that doesn't mean that the audience she's writing for will catch on to that. If the point of the response was to explain how the list was generated, then the response failed to make that point beyond saying this: "All of the sororities and fraternities that were chosen are larger, more popular (or widely known) and have for the most part been around longer-hints to why they were categorized as the top ten."