rankings 2014

yes yes

yeah thats accurate, esp with regards to traditional ranking standards. probably worth noting, as always (for the sake of incoming PNMs reading this), that these standards are less relevant than in bigger greek communities. Not that greek life here isn't legitimate or fun, its just that the difference between sororities here is more marginal whereas ranking of greek communities with defined tiers carries more weight.

This was posted on the older discussion page and even though I don't agree with all of the ranks I think it's a much better/more accurate way of comparing chapters:

By looks: Kappa, Pi Phi, APhi, DG, AEPhi, ChiO, KD, AOII
By social: Pi Phi, APhi, Kappa, AEPhi, DG, ChiO, AOII, KD
By personality (indiv. members): AEPhi, DG, ChiO, AOII, APhi, Pi Phi, Kappa, KD
By involvement (as a chapter): DG, Kappa, AEPhi, ChiO, KD, Pi Phi, APhi, AOII
By sisterhood: AEPhi, DG, ChiO, AOII, Pi Phi, Kappa, APhi, KD
By classiness: DG, Kappa, AOII, ChiO, AEPhi, APhi, KD, Pi Phi
By rush stats (2014): APhi, Pi Phi, Kappa, DG, ChiO, AEPhi, KD, AOII

i'd switch aephi and dg for personality. personally not that into dg's whole "sweetheart" persona but it works for them and the girls seem nice. most of the aephis i've met have just been jappy and kind of annoying.

I think recruitment this year has the potential to really rock the tier system (yes, I know the "best" chapters aren't necessarily the top tier ones, but tiers do have so validity when it comes to looks, rep, and recruiting power).

Pi Phi will probably stay on top because there will always be girls who love partying and the "hot" persona.
Alpha Phi will either do amazing or crash and burn, depending on whether PNMs buy into their facade this year. Based on how annoyed everyone is with them, though, I'm betting on the crash and burn.
Kappa pretty much has this last shot at keeping any kind of status on campus, otherwise they'll just be pretty girls who are sub-par in every other way.
DG, based on the last two years, has the potential to out-recruit most other chapters but will refuse to do so on looks/social life like Pi Phi/APhi/Kappa do, so whether they can be considered top tier is unclear.

AEPhi will either cement their reputation as a good but sloppy party chapter or fade back into solid middle tier - depends on how well they can get it together.
ChiO's place will depend a lot on how well DG/AEPhi do and how well they can steal girls from those chapters. Mostly competing with AEPhi in the tier system but with DG for the type of girls they want.
AOPi (barring getting screwed over by a certain chapter again) is in a position to do better than KD if they can sell their personality and sisterhood to PNMs/do a serious PR push in the fall.
KD will, let's be honest, probably come out on bottom now that the hotter, more social girls are graduated or about to, but no one really holds it against them since they're so new.

Nothing is going to "rock the tier system". Every year someone tries to pretend that someone will change things, whether that's DG or AEPhi or even KD. But it's still the same and it always will be.

Pi Phi/Kappa/Alpha Phi
DG/AEPhi/ChiO
AOPi/KD

Yeah this is pretty accurate!

Would say this first ranking is spot on

this thread definitely has it right. either:

pi phi/aphi
kkg
dg
aephi/chio
aopi/kd

by looks, or:

pi phi
aphi/dg
kkg/aephi
chio
aopi/kd

by rush.