most prestigious nationally

Looking at those schools your whole list is pretty off. Kappa and tridelt are brutal at 90% of schools, it's a fact. They're strong in some southern schools (for DDD only) and Cali (for Kappa only) but beyond that they're the bottom of the bottom. They're really really bad, I'm a tridelt and it's a fact, it's kind of embarrassing going to convention.

Aphi and Theta are top of most of those schools mentioned, tridelt isn't top at any of them. Kappa is top at one... Seems like you just created a completely random list. Besides, those schools all have pretty week Greek systems so they aren't really the best to be comparing to but even using those schools OPs list is more accurate than yours :S

Read #3.

IDK the rankings but these are the houses at some of the elite schools. I'm sure they are all filled with strong girls though considering the requirements to get into the schools.
The Ivies...
Harvard-Theta, Kappa, DG, APhi
Yale-Theta, Kappa, PiPhi, APhi
Princeton- Kappa, Theta, PiPhi
Brown- Theta, AXO, KD
Columbia-AOPi, AXO, DG, Theta, GPB... Others not at OU
UPenn- APhi, AXO, ChiO, DDD, Theta, others not at OU
Cornell- AXO, APhi, DDD, DG, Theta, Kappa, PiPhi, others not at OU
Dartmouth- APhi, DDD, Kappa, others not at OU

Prestigious but not Ivy...
Stanford- Kappa, Theta, PiPhi, DDD, APhi, ChiO, others not at OU
MIT-Theta, PiPhi, APhi, AXO, others aren't at OU
Georgetown- Kappa, Theta
Duke- Kappa, Theta, APhi, DDD, ChiO, DG, GPB, PiPhi... Others not at OU
Northwestern- AXO, APhi, GPB, ChiO, DG, Kappa, Theta, PiPhi... Others not at OU
Chicago- PiPhi, AOPi, DG, Theta, others not at OU
William and Mary- AXO, GPB, DG, DDD, Theta, Kappa, PiPhi

The larger schools like UCLA, Berkeley, UT, Florida, Alabama, etc have almost all of the houses.

Based on these...
Theta- 14/15 chapters at elite schools
Kappa- 10/15 chapters at elite schools
PiPhi- 9/15 chapters at elite schools
APhi- 9/15 chapters at elite schools
DG- 7/15 chapters at elite schools
AXO- 7/15 chapters at elite schools
DDD- 6/15 chapters at elite schools
GPB- 4/15 chapters at elite schools
ChiO- 4/15 chapters at elite schools
AOPi- 2/15 chapters at elite schools

So my rankings were pretty decent, didn't include Theta but I would say that's an error on my part, they just had some real God awful chapters

why don't you just say you are one of the dumb ChiOs that live on here just trying to figure out how to say you are better than everyone else(when you aren't even close). I'm glad someone pointed out your obvious lies about your national rep. ChiO is about as unremarkable as they come.

Uh theta, Pi phi, APhi, DG I was right actually

You didn't list Theta. You put ChiO and GPB in the top and Kappa in the bottom.

So the OP got 60% right. Definitely a ChiO!

60% right based on your choice of schools. Personally don't believe this is a great indication because although the schools are very selective, the sororities are very easy to get into as they aren't very popular at those schools. My choice of XO was based on their strength in southern schools, and basically every other ranking was based very much on the west coast, where imo the best chapters are. I've visited my AZ and Cali chapters and my rankings are very much based on those states. I found the rankings rang true on the east coast and Midwest as well. The strong southern chapters (xo, tridelt) tend to be strong mainly in the south and kappa is only strong in Cali.

I'm not an XO but I think you guys are so weird about XO never seen a house hated so much on any of these GR websites

Umm you are a chi o or you don't go to OU. Everyone knows the nasty things the chi os have been doing to ALL 10 of the other houses for years on here. Everyone also knows they are #8 or #9 in ranking. So when you see a post putting them higher- it was obviously written by a chi o.

I'm not an XO but only checked out GR sparingly until recently... All I ever see is people hating on them so idk I've never really seen them do anything on here or in person

Read #3.

#3 is about an opinion from 50 years ago. It has nothing to do with today.

You're wrong. Tridelt is top at very select schools and are absolutely completely brutal elsewhere. That quote probably doesn't even exist and if it did it was said a longggg time ago.

Written in 1967 -- don't know if it is relevant today.

Make Google your friend. It does exist. It is relevant because those are the traditionally top houses. APhi and others have risen but these houses have set the standard. I find it interesting that those are also the top 4 houses at OU and UT today.

Agree completely with the APhi comment, personally I feel they have the best rep nationally, and I'm not gonna waste my time googling something I read off Greek rank. Like I said it was probably written a long time ago and surprise surprise I was right.

You are delusional. APhi does not have the best rep nationally. They do however have a pretty rough rep at OU.

Best rep for stereotypical Barbie dolls and I personally joined a sorority for the stereotypical reasons

The bitter ChiO has come out. Of course girls at elite institutions would get bids at OU. They have top grades and top test scores. Most come from the best private prep schools in the country. Plus, many are loaded beyond belief. On top of that they have social connections that make OU elites look pathetic.

Actually, Chi O is the house that cares the most if girls are "loaded." They'll give a bid to any girl whose family has money, regardless of grades, reputation, etc. Other houses are more selective and look at family rep, not just family bucks.

That is sad that houses care about your family rep. You can't control your family. You can only be responsible for yourself.

If you look at pictures of the girls in the "prestigious" ivy league chapters, you would recognize that they would not fit in any house at OU. Not any. Period. Girls that get into ivy league schools are mostly girls rejected by the historic clubs and eating houses that the ivies are known for. They are pretty much the rejects of their classes who end up in social sororities instead-in other words, girls who had no connections or other options. That's not to say they're not worthy or great girls, otherwise I'm sure they couldn't have gotten in. But to say they are elite girls who could get into any house here, ha ha ha ha ha! Just shows how little you know about the ivies. Guess you don't have friends who made it.

I think you are very misinformed. You can be in both an eating club and a sorority so it doesn't matter. Some finals clubs like the Bee at Harvard make you drop your sorority your senior year. I've looked at pics of ivy sorority girls and they are usually way prettier than OU girls if that is what you mean. They definitely have more class.

OK, I just googled Harvard's sororities and the girls look like they would be rejected by our lowest houses for looks. I'm sure they're smart and all but they look like they're scholarship cases who are the first in their family to go to college. I lifted a quote from the Harvard sorority blog "I was pleasantly surprised to find that the stereotypical sorority girl I thought of wasn’t there." That is definitely true!

It's totally true. The popular types at Harvard on in much more prestigious organizations, the sororities seem to be like the losers who had no friends in high school. These schools are not a great indication of anything

Chi-Os low standards never cease to amaze me. The fact that they think a ton of makeup on a below average face with fried hair looks good and somehow makes them better than ivy leaguers... Sigh...

I'm guessing Harvard sororities value all their members regardless of looks. They don't hide them in the kitchen like the ChiOs do.

Sororities at those schools just aren't popular and they aren't competitive. Most of them have been established in recent years. That's why they're not attractive, it's not because they aren't smart, it's because it's not really the thing to do at elite schools. Get over it..

I don't know about Harvard, but have two friends at Yale and neither are in sororities. Just so you know, girls with connections at Yale join a secret club like Skull and Bones, not a social sorority.

Skull and bones is for guys. One of the Bush twins went to Yale and was in a house. I'm pretty sure you can also be in a secret society as well. Nice try though.

Think about it this way is Blair Waldorf going to be caught dead in a sorority house? Hell no. We're mostly all from upper middle class families but as rich as we are in our hometowns, our wealth and lifestyles are nothing compared to the cream of the crop of the elite schools. The sororities there get the girls who need financial aid and those sororities don't have nice big houses or highish dues at those schools like we do either, it's just not the same.

You are an idiot. Skull and Crossbones is a guy organization

I think you're more of an idiot, although she probably didn't know it was a guy's organization, she was obviously generalizing. Her point is still valid, there are far more elite organizations at these schools that provide much better networking opportunities than sororities do.

How old are you? Girls have been admitted for years.

Google it. The year I read about - 2011 - was half girls, half boys.

No one wants to ChiO at OU and they are the only house to snap bid 4 years in a row.

Actually, most girls join the house where they feel most at home. If you joined a house because it was the "best chapter you can get in to" you cheated yourself and showed how shallow you are.

My sister was an Alpha Phi at UC Boulder and travelled around to chapters all over and from what she told me they (and Pi Phi and GPhi) were almost always the top. I understand she's got a bias but when you do a little research they're known as the pretty girls pretty much everywhere. I went into rush hoping to go APhi but realized that our chapter doesn't really follow the standard APhi stereotype so no, I wouldn't say they have the best reputation here but they certainly do have a great rep elsewhere.

Yeah well I don't think so. Most of the better houses like PKT would never have chapters at the schools GPB and APhi do. Sorry. Just a fact.

I'm the OP and did a lot of visiting on the west coast and that's where I formed my listings (look up Cali and az my choices are consistent with the rankings there.) I think whoever brought up the elite universities is a little lost... The girls at those schools might as well be geeds, really not a good indicator.

Seriously? You know the elite universities are the ones that produce the people that actually do something in this world? Let's face it. Most of OU sorority girls will get some mid level job until they get married and start popping out little legacies.

They do, not knocking iveys in any way but their Greek system is not a strong one and doesn't represent the nation well

It's sure sad that with all these "great" A Phi chapters that our chapter is so basic.

Leukemia guess your research was done using Greek rank!

Leukemia ? What? My research was done through Google, I narrowed down the top 10 to the top 5

Ohhhh saw your second comment haha but no it wasn't, I know how much our rankings fluctuate in discussions and how inaccurate they are under the actual "rankings" so I wouldn't say those are always reliable lol

If you're using Greek rank as your source, you're crazy. It's a bunch of alums pushing their houses hoping that their children will be enticed into joining.

10schools make up the big 12 and GPB isn't even mid tier at most and they are non existent at a third because their houses were so bad they had to be closed.
Do not exist at:
UT
Baylor
Tech
Kansas State

Bad
TCU
Kansas
Iowa state
OU

Top tier
OSU

Obviously a GPB from OU wrote the post and keeps it alive because she didn't even bother to check out the school's before she started writing nonsense. No one cares GPB recruits in the spring at OU but seriously stop making your house look so desperately desperate. It is probably the reason you always have to recruit in the springtime.

They do not exist at West Virginia either. How sad they girl making comment three claimed they were good in the big 12 they don't even have but 3 chapters in the big 12.

I googled the best 10 sororities in each region. The list I had gave specific chapters, if the list mentioned a sorority twice (or three times as in some cases) I put the number next to it. My list is based on those top 10 in the region overall, not sororities that appear in the top of their respective schools most often. That would be difficult to find out, I would never use GR because it's inaccurate as it gets. But thanks for overreacting and calling me an idiot, idiot. Also didn't GPB barely even show up? You probably shouldn't quit your day job to pursue your brilliant investigative skills. Sorry your chapter didn't make the cut, hopefully they are better at OU!

This is a good story but I'm the OP and I actually go to Mizzou. There was a post on our boards about how crazy your GR board is so I checked it out back then and then again this week and hell yall really REALLY hate xo. Posted about the most prestigious sororities on our board too but it didn't get much of a response. Your discussion board is super populated and lots of animosity but so it's ours, can't really tell who's worse. At least our target changes every once in a while, no one at Mizzou is hated like xo is here.

Come here and visit and see that the Chi Os are largely disliked in person, not just on Greek Rank. They are a strange collection of girls who have little in common and a huge chip on their shoulders.

Chios have the most members because they aren't at all particular about where they allow chapters at. Quality over quantity.

Yep I don't doubt you, the XO's at Mizzou are big geeks too. They have some good southern chapters though and some Midwest ones

They are geeks at OU and are well liked by everyone but the girls they cut and there are a lot of those. I don't understand why anyone would even care about houses on other campuses. ChiO won't be spring recruiting, none of our top or upper middle houses will. OU gives the lower houses a chance to recruit girls without competing with the better houses. Sorry but I'm not ChiO nor do I wish to be maybe that's why I can be truthful about it.

Nice try Gamma Phi

I'm betting that it's Pi Phi that's behind this. They're the meanest girls at OU and they're the ones that are trying to improve their standings.