from thoughtful tulane sorority member
by: Patterns
Everyone in the Greek community has heard of, if not visited, GreekRank.com. If you are an exception or simply not in Greek life, GreekRank is a website where every campus fraternity and sorority chapter can be ranked based on looks, popularity, classiness, involvement, social life and sisterhood/brotherhood. The ranks are given by anyone, either anonymously or not, and include comments explaining the ranking. Does it sound shallow yet? Don’t worry, it gets worse.
GreekRank was designed with good intentions in mind, I’m sure. In it’s best form, the website provides a place for incoming freshman to get a more honest gist of how each chapter is perceived on campus. I, as an incoming freshman not too long ago, can say that I read GreekRank when trying to determine which sororities I may like when rush rolled around. I immediately regretted using GreekRank because all it did was tell me how mean, criticizing and shameful the Greek community was at large and discouraged me from rushing at all.
GreekRank is not a “real” and “honest” review of any campus chapter. If it were, then the ratings would be roughly the same from each commentator and would include a wide variety of perspectives from the campus. Since neither of these facts is true, readers are left to wonder who is determining the “end all be all” rankings for these sororities and fraternities. With the exception of very rare occasions, I can confidently say that rankings do NOT come from the 30-80% of students on campu
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