Ranks are no longer relevant!

Agree 100%. As an oos pnm last year, I never wanted to have to try to find my place in already established high school cliques. The traditional “tops”, or any that felt overwhelmingly “instate” were never on my “most desired list”.

This is SOOO true! Ranks truly dont matter! You still get swaps, socials, sisterhood, etc in all of the chapters! I am an instate active who wasn’t looking at rank or highschool 2.0, but rather vibe and how i fit in! i love my chapter and if i listened to “ranks” i probably wouldve overlooked them!

There is another very important 'rank' factor that PNM's need to understand: The sororities do the choosing, not so much the PNM's, and the selection process is not really 'mutual'.

While PNM's do rank the chapters at every round, the sororities do not ever see these ranks and don't consider them when deciding who to invite back the next round. It doesn't matter how high you rank a sorority, if you're not high enough to make their cutoff number for whatever round, you will be released. A PNM's ranks only come into play if she would receive more invitations back to a round than the schedule allows. In this case her low ranked ones drop off, but otherwise PNM's don't drop chapters they only rank them. You will keep getting as many chapters back as possible for any round.

You do not start off your recruitment according to the way you rank the chapters after Ice Water Teas. This is why getting your second round schedule back for Philanthropy is often the biggest shock. Philanthropy invitation lists will have already been made by the sororities before you set foot on campus and watch the chapter videos. The sororities work all summer reviewing each PNM's grades, resume, video, IG, etc, and also take into account if they know PNM's from high school or other personal connections. They rank the PNM's based on this information, and after all PNM's are registered, the chapters cutoffs are calculated by panhellenic and this will decide the PNM's invitations and where they go for Philanthropy. Not many PNM's at all get to have chapters drop off their schedule, and hardly anyone gets a full one.

*** So PNM's, don't let yourself get fixated on any particular chapters before recruitment, you need to get your Philanthropy schedule back to see what your ACTUAL options are going to be. This is another reason why the so-called ranks and tiers are stupid, they don't matter to your recruitment, the sororities do the choosing.