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Poster Name:
Nah

Poster Message:
The tier system comes from Panhellenic. Basically, there are four 'quartels' that are based off of number for how well each sorority does during recruitment. There are 2 chapters in each quartel. Each girl that goes through recruitment has to rank the sororities they want to go back to after each round, and the sororities that get the most girls ranking them the highest have a higher quartel standing. This affects their ability to choose the pledge class they want. It also takes a couple years for a sorority to move up or down in the rankings so just doing kind of badly one year or really well another year isn't necessarily enough to move up/down. that's why the top 4 chapters, which have historically been really strong, consistently stay top and get good numbers during recruitment and therefore can essentially choose their pledge class whereas bottom tiers don't get much of a say in who comes back to them. As for what determines how PNM's rank each chapter in recruitment, that's based on a bunch of different things like how good the conversations were, if the PNM was going into recruitment really wanting a certain chapter, etc. It's interesting because the PNM actually has very little say which sorority she goes back to after the first round of recruitment (it's not based on the way she ranks the sororities, but rather the way the sororities rank her) but her choices do affect the numbers for each chapter for next year's recruitment.