Rankings only mean something if people trust where they came from. Here’s exactly how a fraternity or sorority ends up in a given tier on The Greek Gospel, and what we’re doing to make that process more accountable over time.
The inputs behind every tier list
- Student feedback and campus discussion submitted directly through each school’s page.
- Campus reputation and social presence — how visible and active a chapter actually is.
- Rush interest — how competitive recruitment has been for a given house recently.
- Overall Greek life relevance on that specific campus.
None of this is pulled from university records, because none of it exists in university records — Greek life rankings are inherently a reflection of student opinion. We say that plainly on every rankings page rather than dressing it up as something more official than it is.
The verified sorority vote
The newest piece of the methodology is a direct voting system: verified sorority members at a given school vote on that school’s fraternity rankings, starting from the current tier list and reordering houses via drag-and-drop rather than starting from a blank slate. Voters confirm their identity with an Instagram handle that’s manually reviewed before their ballot counts, and submissions are capped to prevent any one person from stuffing the vote. Once a voting window closes, results are averaged, manually reviewed, and only then published to the live page — a human always checks the outcome before it goes live.
Why we don’t just publish a raw average
A pure average of votes can get skewed by a small number of highly motivated voters, especially early in a cycle. That’s why every result goes through manual review before publishing — not to override what voters actually said, but to catch anything that looks like coordinated brigading rather than genuine campus opinion, and to make sure a chapter that was added, renamed, or removed mid-cycle doesn’t get misrepresented.
What happens on schools without rankings yet
Because this whole system depends on real submissions from real students, some schools simply don’t have enough data yet to publish a meaningful tier list. On those pages, you’ll see a note asking for submissions instead of a guessed-at ranking — we’d rather show nothing than fabricate a list with no basis.