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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If she just wants friends and a community, what's wrong with the "lowest tier" houses? If all she wants is friends and a community, why would she care about the presumed prestige of a sorority? For that matter, if all she wants is friends and a community, why rush at all? There are many other ways to make friends.[/quote]

Exactly. Any sorority will be a community for her. She doesn't need to be a snob about it.[/quote]

You were so kind until that last sentence.  It doesn’t meant the girl’s a snob if she didn’t feel a connection to one of those communities that offers her a a bid.[/quote]

Calling a group of girls "lower tier" is very different from saying "she didn't feel a connection" to them. She is absolutely being a snob. Or maybe mommy is the one categorizing sororities, in which case mommy is the snob.[/quote]

NP but not-necessarily. It’s by definition a hierarchical system that issues number of invitations each round based on how “desirable” the membership in the houses are to the potential new members seeking to join. The higher the percentage of girls ranking a house as their number one choice, the fewer invitations that house can issue each round so that they aren’t stringing girls along all week only to drop them all at the end. Top tier is another way to say “house most desired by the greatest number of PNMs” and Bottom tier is house least desired by the greatest number of PNMs.
It’s just a statistical fact, but it feels like “snobbery” because the PNMs can’t join more than one house and they must make a choice. When a huge number of girls are all choosing the same house as their ideal number one, it is referred to as the top choice or top tier.
You can call it something else but it is just what it is.
People have preferences and it doesn’t mean that the girls who join the house least preferred by the pNMs are not nice, sweet, attractive, friendly girls. They could still be all of those things. But for whatever reason other houses are preferred by a greater percentage of the girls who are looking to join.
Some girls only want to join a house that a high percentage of girls also want to join. Others don’t mind being in a group that is not at the top of the preference order.
If your DD just wants to have a group to hang with who also want to hang with her, she will be happy in the “bottom tier” group. But most 18-20 year olds are not that secure or confident enough to not care what other people think, and they want to join a group that others also place a high preference for.[/quote]

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