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There are campuses where Panhellenic tries to limit legacy information only to the legacy chapters but I'm told it often fails. Somehow the information seems to get out.
I'm thinking of a girl I know who rushed at a medium-sized university last fall. She was an in-house legacy and had always been in her sister's shadow. She was an outstanding PNM in every way and she wanted to pledge a different chapter from her sister--to be on her own, for once, even though her parents had pressured her to attend her sister's school because it would make it easier all around.
She was cut by everybody except her legacy chapter and one of the much smaller groups right off. Recruitment was immediately not much fun...she only had 2 parties to go to while her dorm friends were attending a lot. She knew she'd be pledging her legacy group because the second group, which is really struggling, wasn't an option.
Now she's in her legacy group and is kind of happy but she's back in her sister's shadow.
Honeychile, I like your idea-- if only Panhellenics would go for it. Right now I think they use legacy info to decide who to cut early on since most groups have to cut so heavily.
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