Upper-tier vs. Lower-tier groups?

[KSUViolet06]

Ths whole "top tier/low tier" thing is just hearsay, rumor, and opinions of others. It's nothing factual or concrete and is totally subjective. You need to go through recruitment and join the sorority that is best for YOU. Not the one that the frats/your friends/your bf/whoever says is "top tier".

I know a girl who joined a chapter solely because this one is considered "the best" by all the fraternities. She was miserable and dropped a week after initiation. She knew all along she would probably have fit better in another chapter, but she thought she'd feel better about joining the "top tier" chapter after initiation. She didn't, and she was really upset when she realized that since she was initiated, she couldn't join another chapter.

Moral of the story: you are choosing the chapter that fits best for YOU. If you go by whatever anyone else says, you could potentially end up somewhere you're not entirely happy with.

[knitsnpurls]

That sucks that she wasn't able to join the chapter that was a better fit. But I know how friends can influence a decision. I would definitely be upset.

And just to make it clear in case some are reading into it, it's not that I'm looking to join the "top" chapter on campus...unless it was a fit of course It's just that, when someone mentions a top-tier school (like...Harvard) vs. a low-tier school (Party U), I know what type of differences there would be (graduation rates, partying, admissions, etc...). With sororities, it seems like there are so many great people (in most cases) that it'd be hard to say one chapter is better than another.