what are the real sorority rankings here?

Also, this is what I gather to be the general consensus around campus, not necessarily my personal opinion. Of course personally I would rank my sisters higher than everyone else:)

To ClassyGreek, your sorority is lucky to have you.

with almost everything you said, except based on consensus around campus I'd switch XO and Zeta.

No, it's common knowledge. Either leave it the way it is or move Pi Phi to first line and ChiO to second line.

May be tradition for pi phi to be top but recent pledge classes have not kept that the case... XO and Zeta have been able to get much better girls.

has been doing better than at least Zeta and probably at least on par with ChiO. Kappa gave out a lot of snap bids last year from what I recall, so the only one in the PKT who seems to be doing relatively ok is Theta.

not 10 strong of 13, I'd say it's 13 strong of 14. There are definitely differences between the top and bottom houses in there, but even the bottom of the sororities doing formal rush primarily associate with middle/lower middle tier fraternities. There are more and less relevant sororities, but none qualify as irrelevant or bad.

but I've seen a lot of the top sororities, especially the PKT throw a lot of bids to sub-par legacies, not necessarily the best rushees. Even if some are off limits to 90% of rushees doesn't mean they really get all of the top rushees by any means.

all this arguing is nice and all but these are the groups competing for the same girls:

Kappa/Theta/Pi Phi/
Tri Delt/Zeta/ChiO
All the girls that ended up here wanted to be PKT. Tridelt, ZTA and Chi O get the left overs with maybe a few legacies thrown in..and the rest of girls that wanted a top 6 and didn't get it dropped out.

AXO/DG/ADPi/A Phi
These are the strong rushees that were not into the big six scene

The rest...
less than perfect rushees but still great girls looking for a sisterhood

@maybe
It means those groups get their choice of who they want which isn't necessarily always the most perfect PNM (such as not so attractive legacies.) Those groups get the ones they want and can completely ignore everyone else. That's why Pi Phi has the dance party first round. They're just more honest about not even going through the motions of having conversations with girls they wouldn't even consider.

The further down in the tiers, the fewer choices a chapter has. They fight it out for the PNMs that were passed over by the chapters higher in the hierarchy. There's not anything wrong with those PNMs but they never even had a chance to go to a higher house. The big six miss out on a lot of great girls by operating that way, but it all comes back to it being their choice which is a luxury the lower groups don't have.

The infamous dance party. I heard Panhellenic were implementing a feet on the ground rule next year because of that. A lot of girls basically drop Pi Phi immediately because more so than everyone else they give PNMs the vibe that they don't care about them if they aren't a legacy. The lower tiers actually get some really fun/attractive girls by virtue of the fact that some of the top chapters have huge blind spots.

"Like it or not, I think what separates the highest tiers from the others is they can afford to not even give 90% of the PNMs as much as a look."

If that's what you mean by top tier then Pi Phi and Kappa are definitely not top tier anymore. They gave out sorry ass snap bids for the past two years because they thought they can still "afford" to do that. If that's what you think is top tier, then that makes them at the BOTTOM

Thats a complete fabrication made up by lower tier sororities and probably Thetas to make themselves feel better. People repeat that lie every year. Nice try though. Stop repeating untrue gossip.

If it's a conspiracy it's the other PKTs doing it to each other. The lower tiers aren't fabricating you guy's snap bidding.

Oh please. The reason a third of rushees don't get a bid is because most of them drop out when they're left with choices like KD, AXiD, Zeta, APhi etc. once the best sororities have dropped them. Don't make it sound harder than it is. If girls would keep their minds open, a lot more would receive bids and the bottom houses would be much stronger.

UT has one of the most competitive sorority rushes in the nation with over a third of the rushees not even getting a house. There are lots of great girls in all the houses.

Anyone who makes it into any decent sorority - period at UT is a step above any other Texas university// college sorority member Wherever!

Oh please. The reason a third of rushees don't get a bid is because most of them drop out when they're left with choices like KD, AXiD, DG, AChiO etc. once the best sororities have dropped them. Don't make it sound harder than it is. If girls would keep their minds open, a lot more would receive bids and the bottom houses would be much stronger.

I question whether a third of the rushees really drop out. It can't be that many. You do have a point, though. If everyone would just stick it out, the groups might be a little more even.

I respect the girls who stick it out way more than the entitled prima donnas who drop when they don't get in a big 6 sorority or whatever. They don't look like they were too good to be in whatever middle or lower tier sorority to me, they look like they weren't good enough to be in any sorority, and it becomes obvious why the top ones cut them.