What makes a certain university a "competitive" school to rush at?

[magnoliacurious]

Originally Posted by 33girl

I would say Arkansas, Texas or Ole Miss simply because the number of sororities is so disproportionate to the number of PNMs and because it's been so hard for a new group to come on. That makes it competitive all around - i.e. it's even competitive for a new sorority to succeed.

You would certainly be a much more authoritative judge on this matter than I would, but I think it's worth mentioning that for the last two years Ole Miss had a 90%+ rate of girls who signed up for recruitment getting placed in a sorority while Alabama had a mid to upper 80% placement rate. I don't know all the circumstances at both schools, but to me a lower placement rate seems a surface indicator of more competitiveness. I believe it's obvious to most of us here that both schools recruitments are among the most competitive in America.