latest poll data

Interesting. I would not have guessed that!

bizarre list. Never even heard of over 60% of those groups. Pretty questionable, and kind of apples and oranges.

This is literally a survey sent to 36 schools where they picked top sororities. That isn't factual at all! And we don't even know what schools they were sent to. For example, Sigma Kappa was ranked SUPER LOW, like in the 70s, with all the service/academic groups above them. Any list that held any merit would just include the 26 Panhellenic chapters, or at least those 26 first then everyone else.

Well, after all it is a "popularity" contest, not a merit list. The whole merit thing doesn't take into consideration which houses are the ones that people actually like and want to be in. And I'd say that 36 campuses is probably a better slice of reality that the people that post on here with their very biased rankings that only reflect the SEC. I guess it is a shock to see that houses I don't even know about (and historically black sororities) are well loved around the US. Idk. For me it just kind of put my local perceptions into more of a "national" view.

I just looked at the ones I know about it and dismissed the others and it was still startling. I think it's a good thing to look at, though, because we do get a feeling that things everywhere are just like they are here.

AOpi sucks almost everywhere but here and georgia
bogus list

Well, it is only a sampling from universities around the country. Even if the methodology isn't perfect, it does give me pause to think that what I thought I knew (from being in the SEC) isn't exactly everyone else's experience. I can understand how the Pi Phis and Phi Mus are upset, but it goes to show the importance of choosing a sorority that you like for your college years and not worrying about it's popularity on a "national" tier.

Not a precise sampling but it does go to show that people in other parts of the country have different favorites. We need to avoid thinking that because something is true in T-Town that it's true everywhere.

National tiers can be looked at in two ways. One is using data like size (greekrank has a list of sororities by size on its "ranking" page), philanthropy dollars, etc. The other way is to do a sampling of universities asking about popularity of the different houses on campus. Neither one is really satisfactory because in many cases you're comparing apples and oranges. Not every campus has ever sorority and not every campus is able to be sampled. Maybe this list will put the notion to rest that there is anything national about tiers for sororities.

True. National tiers means nothing at all except that you're biased towards the houses you know about. It is impossible to quantify the order that houses are loved around the country. It's just silly to even debate it.