My (live) Recruitment Story!
 

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Pre-Rush ideas :)
 

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Your strong suit - knowing lots of girls in the chapters.
Your weak suit - you can't help but go in with reputations floating around in your mind.
Depending on your school, being a junior may or may not be a huge deal, but it sounds like you've done everything you can to combat that - lots of recs and legacy forms. As you know from reading GC, that is no guarantee, but if it's not a huge Greek system it could get you invited back once as a courtesy. It depends on their interpretation of what "special attention" means.

Best of luck to you!

Legacies are an organization thing, not a campus thing. It may be that your recruitment registration form asked about aunts/cousins, but that has absolutely no bearing on the membership selection policies of individual organizations.

good luck izzygirl!

The Panhellenic form may ask about any relation because some sororities do consider nieces to be legacies and others don't. Since you said your university is in an area of the country where Greek life is not as popular (i.e. there's not tons of legacies), the particular chapter may wish to apply their National's legacy policy to nieces. I won't claim to know the exact legacy policy of every NPC, but I am sure none of them guarantee a bid to legacies; it's something along the lines of a "courtesy invite to first invitational round" and "special consideration". Or perhaps Greeks on your campus refer to nieces and cousins of members as "legacies" colloquially speaking, but they do not have to apply their National's legacy policy to them.

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Just so you understand that depending on the group, this may not be a written, official policy. Your aunt should check and see what her organization's current policy is.

I don't know how the person in the office of Greek Life put it, but it is not their place to weigh in on or make blanket statements about legacy policies. Each group decides that individually. "There's a chance your aunt's sorority may have a policy that makes you a legacy" - fine. "Oh you are a legacy because of your aunt!" - not fine.

Haha okay then. Well either way I'm not too concerned. If I am considered a legacy at that particular house because of my aunt, then great. If not, I'll live! Thanks for all your various input. We will just have to see.

It's totally not something I'm about to stress over. :)

Nieces are legacies with Alpha Xi Delta. That one I can give you. For the others, you're on your own.

Kappa does not consider nieces as legacies. I swear I think I saw a thread about this topic somewhere here on GC where the national legacy policies were discussed.

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I feel like I'm being http://snltranscripts.jt.org/03/pics/03rdowner3.jpg but honestly, even at schools that aren't very competitive, girls occasionally get released from all groups and/or don't get bids to a sorority. Please don't go into it with the above mindset or it might really backfire on you. I know you've been there for a couple years, but you don't know the inner workings of the sororities and membership selection until you're actually in one.