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Originally Posted by Buttonz
I know this is off topic but this is intresting to me...
So if you had to be 18+ (let's just say) to go through recruitment at your school, and if you had formal in the fall that would mean freshman like myself wouldn't have been able to go through formal...in a competitive school that would have hurt my chances of getting a bid....right?
Is that fair?
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At a campus like mine was, with deferred recruitment, this wouldn't have been a problem unless you skipped a grade or two. I suppose if this happened in a school with competitive recruitment, your age status would be taken into account during recruitment if you were to rush later.
It's entirely possible that whichever Rho Pi told me about the age restrictions at the time (she said that you had to be a legal adult for liability reasons and so your parents didn't have to sign off on
everything) was giving me bad information, and that the greek life office just wanted PNMs birthdays to know
who was underage so they could be prepared to be in contact with their legal guardians if they were to join a chapter. I just took her word for it because it seemed to make sense, and it actually kind of still does if you think about it...I'd think it'd be a pain in the ass to have to get all those parent signatures on insurance forms for greek week, softball tournaments, parties, etc. for an minor member. I would also think there would be special risk managment issues for minors. But I know it happens in chapters all over the place, so I'm sure it works out just fine.
That said, I don't think we had anyone under 18 go through recruitment in the years I was there, so it wasn't ever a problem from what I can recall.
Either way, the greek life office (and later my chapter, as we filled out the new member paperwork) definitely had my birthdate on file, and I had to verify my birthday with legal ID.