sisterhood

sisterhood is all what you make of it. if you're snobby towards your sisters then obviously you won't create bonds that contribute to a strong sisterhood. but if you're willing to get to know as many sisters as you can and you're just a nice and genuine girl, then you'll definitely feel a strong sisterhood connection. every house provides you the opportunity to have a strong sisterhood, you just need to be willing to form bonds.

You can read the older posts about which houses tend to have more drama than others. Generally speaking, the houses that tend to focus on grades have less drama and better sisterhoods than those that focus more on looks.

You'll be able to tell during rush. You can see through a lot of the fakeness.

Read the older posts with lists of drama houses.

Houses with great sisterhoods: AXO, Theta, XO, ADPi, AGD

Houses with poor sisterhoods: DZ, APhi, ZTA, PM, KD

There are about 400 girls in a house. And, 140 girls in your pledge class

In every house you'll likely have 5 or so good friends and a "circle" of 10 to 25 other girls that you routinely have in classes, see around campus, and hang out with.

I believe all houses offer that.

Not sure how you measure the relationship between girls in the pledge class and the broader house beyond those closest five to twenty five. So I think all houses offer sisterhood

I frankly don't see or hear of any more internal drama in the houses you rank lowest versus highest. Seems more like a list of girls you don't like - as an outsider.

That's fine, but not fair to say their sisterhood is weak. \n\n\n\n\n

Compared to my friends at schools with smaller houses - 50 to 100 members versus 400, - it just doesn't seem as important here.

I wouldn't trade my ten close friends that I really like for another house where there is a "sense" that the members are somewhat more cohesive.

Maybe some houses have more "vocal" factions and some more "seething" but don't think the feeling of real closeness and tight friendship stretches to larger groups in one house versus another.

With 400 girls you are going to like some, not really know some and perhaps not even care for some. But there is plenty of room to maneuver and it's easy to find a close group you really like within the house.

If you had a house of fifty members it would be way more important that they are cohesive and sisterly. We just don't deal with that here.

Nobody outside a house is going to know what it's like to be inside.
Not only that, sisterhood changes from year to year....even semester to semester.

In the end, sisterhood is what YOU put into it. If you are active in your group, if you go out of your way to talk with and work with lots of different members, if you do things with them and attend meetings and events and build that bank of common experiences, you will have a close sisterhood.

I've seen one girl who's very active talk about how close she is to her sisters, and another girl from the same group who rarely shows up talk about how poor the sisterhood is and how she doesn't feel a part of anything. Why? Because she chose to involve herself only rarely.

Like anything else....you get out of it what you put into it.