What do you think about ranking Sororities?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by badnews_bear

Please feel free to give me your feedback and check out the article:

Is there a point somewhere in the article? If there is, I cannot find it. In one place, you say that it's "not fair" to put together a list of the "best" sororities and/or fraternities, yet elsewhere you seem to defend just such lists. A response like this needs to present a cogent argument for the position you're taking. This article does not do that.

As for this sentence --

It is not fair to compile a national list of the best sororities and fraternities because each chapter is very unique.

-- there is no such thing as "very unique." A chapter is either unique -- meaning it is one of a kind and there is no other chapter like it anywhere -- or it is not. There are no levels of uniqueness. /petpeeve

The original list was pointless and completely lacking in information -- particularly the criteria used for determining the very-subjective "best." Sorry, but your response seems equally pointless.

[badnews_bear]

As an intern for parents&colleges I sought an opportunity to reach out to greek members who were offended. I did not oppose the article, nor support it-hints as to why i did not take a stance. In the word count which I was allocated I wanted to explain the coordinator's thought process in publishing the list while pointing out how doing so could easily upset people. I do not want to argue with anyone, but regardless of what I say someone will not be happy.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by badnews_bear

You obviously didn't read the last four paragraphs of the article, where I take the time to praise all organizations and credit them all for being unique.

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.

The article does not say, "these are the best sororities to join."

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.

If you would like your sorority featured. I can write a blog post highlighting your chapters efforts.

Chapters and sororities are not the same thing.

Originally Posted by badnews_bear

In the word count which I was allocated I wanted to explain the coordinator's thought process in publishing the list . . . .

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.)

[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."