I've never given this deep thought before but the number of prestige houses on a big Southern campus varies greatly. In the seventies at the 3 schools I got degrees from, one school was said to have 4 high prestige groups, 3 medium, and 2 low; another campus was 6-5-3; and another, if you can believe this, was 1-3-2-2 (yes, one group was extremely high prestige as compared to the next 3 who were just "high").
Closings and openings of several chapters on each campus have since redone that a little but I'm told that all the high prestige groups on those campuses remain so and that there are still many rushees who wouldn't think of accepting a bid from any tier but the supposed top one. Sad! The middle tiers contain some outstanding groups.
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