Well, all 1400 aren't going to get 5 recs each. But I would say at Alabama, 1000 of them have at least one. It isn't all that difficult to do with the recruitment team, alums and a computer....anything else and I'm giving away private membership stuff but it can and is done. Remember, at these schools, the recruitment team is there all summer - along with alums.

Yes, all 1400 don't get 5 recs each. All 1400 don't get three each but there is a good number who DO try to get that many. Three each for at least half of the total number of pnms is not unusual at all. And, I would say 98% have at least one. That's a lot of recs. And, at Arkansas, those recs are all recorded and compiled - not going into too much detail - but like titchou says, those chairmen are there all summer getting these things organized. Of course, what every chapter chooses to do with recs - how they utilize them during recruitment - is up to that individual chapter.

And let's remember this pnm is coming from out of state - her recs will be crucial unless she has strong ties to her school already.