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I honestly couldn’t tell you. I’m in what people would consider to be a “bottom tier sorority” (not phi mu) and it irritates me to no end when people say that. Phi Mu’s are lovely, generous, kind, smart and funny. Some of my best friends are phi mus. I’ve noticed that the houses that take more POC and plus sized women are ranked lower so I guess it’s just based on beauty standards…

No one, ever, has ranked APhi as a top house.

These rankings have been in place for years, my older sister went to Mizzou in the 2010s and not much has changed in terms of who is perceived as top tier and bottom tier. I think these rankings perpetuate themselves as freshman find out what houses are considered top and bottom and make their recruitment decisions based on that. Top tier houses get their pick of girls that get along well and have good resumes while lower tier houses don’t get to hand pick their members- leading to a less cohesive pledge class, more girls dropping, and less achievements on campus. These things might change if girls would give these houses a chance instead of dropping out of recruitment.

I know amazing women in every house and I don’t think these rankings should be a big deciding factor in your recruitment journey. If you want sisterhood and a sorority experience, then you should give these chapters a chance. Appearances aren’t everything.

I think there are worse houses than Phi Mu, actually. the worst of all is the house that is constantly on this site saying how beautiful they are. In reality, their grades are awful, their sisterhood is abysmal and their retention rate is embarrassing.