There are many types of women you will encounter going through rush. There is the woman that knows absolutely nothing about the sororities or where she fits in, and adversely the woman who did so much research on each chapter that she already knows where she'll fit in. There will be a woman that rushes as a sophomore and has a lot of friends in one specific chapter and knows that she wants to be with them.

There is also the other sophomore, or possibly even junior, who rushed last year and dropped because she did not get into the sorority she wanted. All of those women are perfectly fine. Nothing is wrong with rushing twice or going in knowing absolutely nothing because in the end, you will end up in your home, wherever home may be. The woman that is not fine, though, is the woman that buys into the tier system.

What is the tier system you might ask? Some might think it is simply a ranking of the top three sororities on campus based off of things like philanthropy, date functions, and popularity. What they don't know is that most of those things are completely false when talking about the tier system.

The tier system (at least on my campus) came from a group of fraternities getting together and ranking women based on how "hot" they are. They could honestly care less about how much they give back to society. You should choose a sorority for you, not because you read some list telling you what sorority is best.

A big thing that I wanted during rush was a group of women that I could count on and they could count on me. I wanted to fit in. I wanted a home. I knew going through, that all I needed to do was trust the process and in the end, it would all work out, whether I ended up in a popular sorority or not.

When I was in line to visit one of the houses, a junior rushing along side me asked what my favorite house was at the time. After I told her, she responded with, "woah, that's a top tier". Confused, I talked to my rho gamma (an amazing woman who has unaffiliated herself from her sorority to help us find our own sorority) and she told me what I told you. She told me that it was all just a pointless scale created by men. As the week went on it felt weird liking a sorority that many assumed to be great for all the wrong reasons. In the end, I chose the sorority that was right for me, regardless of what tier it was.

You might be thinking, why is she so against the tier system? Isn't it accurate? First off, NO!!! And second NO!!! Men should have no control over how women think of each other. Each sorority is just as powerful as the next, whether men think they are "hot" or not. If I show up to the house in no makeup and sweats or with a full face of makeup, it will still be my home.

Why? Because all of the women in that house like me for me, and that is all that matters. We don't have to submit ourselves to a man's standard of beauty when we know we are beautiful.

And so, if you ever decide to rush just know that there is no "bad sorority', just one that you might not fit in with and that's okay. You make the decision that makes you happiest and do not let anyone tell you that it is wrong, or that you are in the wrong place. If you fit in, how could it be bad?