out of state wants top national sororities

said Theta, Kappa, and PiPhi are good everywhere is wrong. They are some of the lowest tier houses at many of the SEC and ACC schools.

forgot Arkansas - XO,Kappa, PiPhi

if you want to be in the strongest national sororities, you're going to try for (in no order because its different everywhere):
KKG, DG, PiPhi, DDD, ADPi (think they're coming next year?), XO, Theta, KD

join any of those and you can't go wrong

If you look at the top public and private schools in each state, a handful of sororities are consistently on campus - KKG, Pi Phi, Theta, DG, DDD - and these 5 sororities are very selective in the campuses they will put chapters to keep up their strong alumnae base and academic standards. These are the top 5 national sororities. And - the top two at the majority of the top public and private schools is Theta and Kappa.

This topic is like dragging a dead horse. ALL the sororities at Ole Miss have Great girls, crazy girls, party girls, smart girls and not so classy girls no one sorority has only oe kind. The only people that believe in the old tier rankings are the girls from little ole Mississippi. They want to be in the supposed top three because everyone from their hometown was in a particular sorority and they would rather die than come home in a Theta shirt. It doesnt matter what kind of girls are in the sorority or that they would love the sisterhood it had to offer it is all about preconceived ideas based on ladies 30 years older than them makes them want to be in a sorority that may have no sisterhood but certain letters. Out of state girls are not immune to this either because they could not care less if every Jackson girl thinks they have to be a Chi O or die, they cant go home with a KD shirt or risk ridicule. Even though all the Mississippi girls would love to think the rest of America somehow values their judgement or thinks they are superior in picking sororities its not true. That is why the whole "tier" system or top sororities are just opinions. Or take the letters off some composites and ask girls to rank them based looks alone or take letters off and rank based on friendliness and kindness and I assure you there would be drastic changes to your so called ranks. Quit with the ranking nonsense.

XO is not top nationally. They have lots of chapters at schools the top sororities would not consider colonizing. Lots of chapters does not mean anything, it just means you have lower standards for where you will consider having a chapter. XO gives less to charity nationally than almost all of the national panhellenic council members. Newsweek article confirms this.

Alpha Phi is stronger than ZTA, ADPi and KD nationally. They have very strong chapters in NE, Midwest, Arizona, California, and West Coast.

AXO and KD are two of the fastest growing sororities and are starting to get a ton of good national attention

Lets get this straight , Texas girls join a sorority based on how they are nationally??? What is that going to get you unless you plan on transferring back to Texas and if that is the case do like lots of girls do go to UTSA, Blinn or one of those other schools then transfer in. I know Texas schools are harder to get in because of them selecting certain ranked students but every high school in Texas is not to the same standard so don't think Texas only gets the brightest of students. Plenty of students who get in after they have gone to other colleges first , so don't cut down other Universities because you think Texas schools are superior. Pick a college because you like it and feel comfortable there and if you can pick a sorority for the same reason. Unfortunately every girl doesn't get their top choice but I would never recommend picking a sorority because of their national ranking.

Have said it better @yeah (above comment). First of all, if some of you Texas folk think that we Mississippians are so "shallow minded", I don't understand your desire to go to ole miss. Secondly, I can say that without a doubt that the big Texas colleges that you either could not get into or chose not to because you want to go to college with "shallow minded" Mississippians, have the same level of catty comments on their greek rank pages and the "higher" tier sororities put down the "lower" tier sororities just like every other college on this lovely site. (Quite sad actually that this whole sorority thing is suppose to be about sisterhood and greek unity.) Anyway, finally, I can also say that without a doubt MOST girls go into rush everywhere with an idea of what they want, and I repeat MOST but not all do this. Either they have friends in chapters, or heard who is "good" or "not" or they are legacies who either do or don't go that path. Some girls go in blindly not knowing much at all and some go through kind of seeng who their pledge class might be and then some go in totally open minded. All of these are fine! Bottom line girls: this is how we roll at the University of Mississippi, love it or leave it. Ps: same everywhere else too. Have a nice day :-)