The Advantage Score

Every chapter gets three numbers:

• Advantage Score: the headline. How well a chapter prepares members for life after college, while still counting the experience.
• Career Prep Score: outcomes, academic and career growth, and the alumni network.
• Social Score: brotherhood or sisterhood, social life and balance, and the rush and pledging experience.

We show Career Prep and Social side by side because the contrast is the story. A chapter with Social 91 and Career Prep 58 is a different place from one with Social 70 and Career Prep 88.

Advantage = 80% × Career Prep + 20% × Social + Posting Boost + Hiring Boost, capped at 100.

We don't add up every rating and divide. Each question feeds one specific part. Star ratings (1 to 5) are turned into 0 to 100 in a straight line: 1 star is 0, 3 stars is 50, 5 stars is 100.

Outcomes come from facts, not stars: whether someone landed a job or internship, how they got it, and whether they graduated on time. We turn those answers into rates and compare them with the campus.

Outcomes · 44% of Career Prep (35% of the Advantage Score)

The placement rate (members and alumni who were looking and landed a job or internship), the independent placement rate (those who landed it on their own), and on-time graduation compared with the university's official rate. Matching the campus scores 70; doing better moves toward 100, doing worse toward 0. Only verified members and alumni count here. Confirmed hires of members, relative to chapter size, can raise Outcomes further.

Academic & career growth · 37% of Career Prep (30%)

Ratings for academics, career help and leadership development.

Network · 19% of Career Prep (15%)

The alumni engagement rating, raised by real alumni activity: approved alumni actively posting jobs, relative to chapter size.

Alumni activity only ever raises a part. A chapter whose alumni aren't on GreekImpact yet isn't marked down for it.

Boosts are shown separately and added after the weighting.

• Posting Boost, up to +3: alumni posting jobs in the last 12 months. Each approved alum who posts counts most; extra roles from the same alum add a little less each time. Adjusted for chapter size.
• Hiring Boost, up to +7: confirmed hires of members in the last 24 months, adjusted for chapter size.

A hire counts when both sides confirm it (the alum marks Hired and the student confirms), or when one side confirms and our team checks by hand that the student's LinkedIn profile shows them at that company. If only one side has confirmed, the hire is pending and doesn't count yet. We never scrape LinkedIn.

• Every review goes into one average. A member or alum's review counts 1.5 times as much as a recruit's or another student's, so no group gets a fixed share it hasn't earned with reviews.
• Unverified reviews count at 25% of the weight of verified ones. A review is verified by a school email from the chapter's campus, a chapter review code, or an approved membership.
• Accounts from throwaway email services can't sign up.
• When a chapter suddenly gets a cluster of unverified reviews far below its usual rating, we hold them and check them by hand before they count.
• Parent and family reviews are shown separately and never count toward the score.
• While a chapter has few reviews, each part is pulled toward the campus average, so one glowing or harsh review can't swing the score.
• Missing data never fakes a number. If a part has no data yet, its weight is shared among the parts that do.
• A chapter with fewer than 5 reviews shows Limited data instead of a score.

Chapters don't have to do anything for their page to work. Those that take part earn trust and visibility, never score points.

• Trust line: every chapter shows how many reviews its score is based on and the share that are verified.
• Responds to reviews: the chapter answered at least 50% of its reviews from the last 12 months, with at least 3 responses.
• Active alumni: at least 2 approved alumni posted jobs in the last 12 months, or the chapter's alumni made at least 1 confirmed hire in the last 24 months.

In rankings we sort by tier first. Within a tier, active chapters come first (verified chapters, chapters with either badge, and chapters with at least 5 reviews of which 50% or more are verified), then by Advantage Score. Chapters with Limited data always come last.