[PhoenixAzul]

No offense, but it seems like a great number of PNMs are getting them for the sake of having them and not getting dropped from recruitment, not because they personally want to be recommended and highly touted to a particular sorority. That girls have to seek recs from alumnae panhellenics is sort of weird to me...like asking a professor you've never talked to to write you a law school rec. If the use of recs was reduced, I think that their impact would increase. If they weren't necessary (i know Panhel sites say "recommended" to have, but reading between the lines of certain rush threads, they may well have said "required").....getting one particularly well written, detailed and personal recomendation from an alum close to the PNM would be more, I dunno, powerful?

"recs" at Otterbein are usually only used when we have a girl who is a legacy/indirect legacy, just to let us know who she is, but if an alum wrote us specifically about a girl (example: a former student), we'd definitely be inclined to ask more about her.

Here's something that's been digging at me...on your recruitment materials, is there any sort of personal statement?