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Originally posted by sugar and spice
I agree with most of the rest of your post but I am calling bullisht on this one. Either she made this statistic up or it was taken from an extremely limited sample size of a survey of her own design. I kinda doubt there's any national sorority out there who's taking surveys on whether or not their chapters are viewed as "top houses," especially since most national officers realize the irrelevance of this statistic. What could pass for "top chapter" on some campuses wouldn't even pass some sororities' minimum member requirements. Other times a house could be considered "bottom tier" and still have girls who with extraordinarily high GPAs and good looks who are very involved on campus and do lots of philanthropy, but compared to other groups on campus they are just not "as good."
I thought we were all mature enough to handle this discussion, but apparently we aren't. And really, the turn this debate has taken makes us look like idiots. Clearly Kappa and DG and Tri Delt don't comprise the top tier at every university out there. Some? Sure. Lots? Maybe. All? Nowhere close. The same goes for Sig Ep/SAE/Kappa Sig/Sigma Chi on the fraternity side. For anybody who thinks that they do, it just makes you look extremely ignorant of Greek systems outside your own. What goes for your campus or your state or even your entire geographic region varies drastically.
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I think this is the best post in this thread so far!
I believe that it is possible to separate sororities on each individual campus into "tiers" based on any number of factors. In fact, depending on what the individual seeking to make the classification is using as their criteria, you could come up with several different results! How do you define each tier - who is the best? Is it the sorority that everyone wants to join on that campus? The one with the most members? Is it the sorority that has the best looking girls? Is it the sorority that wins Greek Week every year? Or Derby Days? Or Homecoming? Or has the Homecoming Queen every year? Or has the most campus-wide accomplishments? Also - who is the judge? Is it the other sororities? The fraternities? The independents on campus? The faculty/administration? There are so many angles to look at this question from, and each person is going to have a different perception of what they think makes a group the best.
Nationally speaking, I think it would be pretty much IMPOSSIBLE to try to define the 26 NPC groups into tiers, and one would be a fool for trying. IF someone had that much time on their hands to go around to EVERY SINGLE CAMPUS to observe Greek life, well, by the time they finished their study, it would be changing again!
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