Decide what your idea of the top sorority is before proceeding. Do you believe that the top sorority is the one with the most members? Is it the one that does the most charity work, or that has the highest graduation rate? Is it the sorority that the biggest number of girls want to get into, or is it the chapter of the sorority that is the biggest nationwide? To determine what the top sorority is to you, you first must decide what that means. Come up with a set of criteria to search for a sorority, and list them from most important to least important. A list might look like the following: national attendance, number of girls on campus, amount of money spent with charity work, biggest house.
Find out information about the sororities that are on your campus, after you know what you are looking for. Look at the sorority websites and talk to the sorority advisor on campus, who can give you more information about each of the sororities and what they have to offer. Check the national sorority websites to see how big the national chapters are, what types of work the sororities do and what the benefits are to joining.
Think about the types of people who are joining each sorority, says Lane. Although each sorority should be open to all new women as members, different campuses have traditional sororities for different groups of women. Some sororities are professional, which means they are based around an idea or occupation, like business or music. Others are social, meaning that they are based around friendship and college life. Social sororities might have campus-wide reputations that are important to look at. Lane suggests talking to older students to see if there are sororities that are typically joined by the party girls, the quiet girls, African American girls, girls who are studying a particular subject or girls with a particular religious belief. All of these factors might make your choice of sorority, and what you feel to be the top sorority on campus, a little bit different.