Top tier Mid Tier what?

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Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
And I would say on your campus there's also a very distinct bottom two houses - and the others are lumped in the middle. I know this from my GDI friends, so obviously word gets around.

I started to go into in-depth analysis of the two potential "bottom tier" houses and why I disagree but realized that might be a bit much for an online message board where nobody else knows what we're talking about. Suffice it to say that I think the problem with deciding what groups are "bottom tier" is that, unlike at most schools, reputation and numbers don't correlate at the UW. Some of the groups with strong reputations are not the biggest on campus, and vice versa. And I think that is the problem with the two groups I'm assuming you're referring to as the "bottom tier" groups here: one has decent numbers but not a great rep, the other has low numbers but a decent rep. So it's hard to say where they would fall in the spectrum of "tiers" here -- because they are so fluid.

The fraternities would be even more complicated to divide up.

And I think that in general GDIs have an oversimplified view of the Greek system (especially here where they are generally very anti- or at best neutral-Greek) because their view depends entirely on who they know in the Greek system to pass down gossip and news. If you asked most of my friends, they'd probably guess that Kappa, Tri Delt and Pi Phi compose the top tier because they don't know girls in any other groups! . . . it's all relative.

All of which explains one of the reasons why the whole "tier" thing should be taken with a grain of salt.