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annie,

you DO need recs at schools with a competitive recruitment.

a rec. is not a guarantee that you will receive a bid, or even an invitation back to a top chapter, but it IS almost a guarantee that you will NOT be invited back (to the chapters that are most popular with the pnms)at a competitive recruitment.

like i said in another thread, with 100's of fabulous pnms who DO have recs to invite back, why would a sorority add more work to their day, by trying to track down someone from patty pnm's home town who knows her and would write a rec. for her? in most cases, it ain't gonna happen.

i am not posting this to stress out pnms, but i am tired of seeing year after year, wonderful girls who should have had their pick of houses, believing that they do not need recs. and ultimately dropping out of recruitment because recruitment is not going the way we lead them to believe it would.