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This might be radical, but after reading all this comments I have several thoughts (and this is from the perspective of aa adviser)
What if the forms just asked "is your mother/ sister in a NPC sorority, but did not ask which one, nor give the space to fill it in?
It would be up to the mother/ sister/ grandmother to send the proper forms to the chapter. Do all of the chapters need to know that PMN 42 is a legacy to ABC? No, only ABC does... but as we know, if the information is on the form, it doesn't always get adequately hidden. Why even have it on the form to begin with? I can understand why PMNs at some schools choose not to disclose the information if it will hurt their chance but then we are in a way encouraging them to be deceptive. If all they had to say was "yes, my mother is in a sorority", would that have the same detrimental effect?
As an advisor, I loved having multiple legacies to multiple groups... those parents understood housing requirements/ dues/ and the time issues. We wanted them, and rushed them hard (and while that was a midwestern school, it was competitive, with new member classes of 40-50). A first generation greek did not always have the same family support and we had more issues with dropouts.
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